Municipal Participatory Budgeting of Asunción
The Participatory Budget is an initiative of the Administration of the Municipality of Asunción, whose objective is to involve citizens in the process of allocating resources at the municipal level. In 2016, informational and deliberative meetings were held in 10 municipal centers. The neighborhood projects were already included in the municipal budget of 2017. Among the agreements created is the Comprehensive Centers of Citizen Unit, tasked with carrying out the projects prioritized.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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