Recife Participates
Recife Participa (lit. Recife Participates) is the official citizen participation program of the city of Recife, created in 2013 to replace the participatory budgeting process in Recife. It consists in the realization of plenary sessions, workshops and meetings open to the population in neighborhoods and communities of the city. The main objective is to discuss priorities for municipal initiatives in each neighborhood and to include such demands in the most strategic budget schemes of the city. In each part of the city, a forum of the program is formed with councilors elected by the population who are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the policies and suggestions discussed in plenary sessions. The main difference when compared to the previous program is that Recife Participa does not confine itself to the definition of budget priorities, but instead promotes an open debate about city planning.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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Policy cycle
Sources
- www2.recife.pe.gov.br/pagina/recife-participa
