Regionalized Participatory Planning
Regionalized Participatory Planning is an innovation used by the city of Belo Horizonte to increase citizen participation in the municipality?s regionalized planning processes. The process is divided into 4 cycles. During the first one, workshops are held to present the participatory process and the municipality?s ongoing initiatives in the region. During the second, citizens propose actions for their respective areas. During the third cycle, the mayor attends the plenary sessions and collects the demands that were previously approved. Finally, the municipal government promotes a final round of discussions in each region and presents an analysis of the proposals, stating whether they will be incorporated or not in municipal plans and their performance targets. 58 workshops and 126 meetings were held during this process, with the participation of 5360 people and the elaboration of 2500 proposals.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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