Public Hearings for Participatory Budgeting (APPP)
The Public Hearings for Participatory Budgeting (span. Audiencias Públicas de Presupuesto Participativo - APPP) are a democratic tool that allows citizens of a municipality to contribute to the decision-making process and the design of budgets related to public expenditures. During the process, projects, prepared by working groups conformed of municipal officials and members of civil society, are presented. Prior to the APPP, training sessions are organized for organizations and citizens. The projects are evaluated at the Public Hearing for Participatory Budgeting to select which ones will be implemented.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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