Brazil

Multiannual Participatory Plan

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2011 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Presidencia da República
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The Participatory Pluriannual Plan (port. PPA - Plano Plurianual Participativo) is a four-year budget piece that must contain the strategic goals and objectives of the Brazilian public budget, and which must be approved by law in the legislature. The first experience of social participation around the PPA took place in 2011 (PPA 2012-2015), when the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Planning and the General Secretariat of the Presidency, sought to include civil society and citizens in defining the goals of the PPA. This inclusion was materialized by two mechanisms: the Inter-council Forum and the State Forums. The first is a democratic space created by the members of several National Public Policy Councils to propose policies to be debated and incorporated by the PPA. The second are plenary sessions held in each state to present the PPA and receive proposals from citizens. The PPA 2016-2019 also maintained this participation dynamics with the inclusion of more mechanisms of virtual participation.

Institutional design

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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 civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://www.ppaparticipativo.ba.gov.br/