Our Choice - Participatory Amendments
The web platform "Nossa Escolha" (lit. Our Decision) was developed within the mandate of National Deputy Alessandro Molon, of the Brazilian Socialist Party, to invite citizens to co-decide their proposals for parliamentary amendments to the federal budget. All the deputies have the possibility to propose amendments to define the investment of federal money in their States. Through the platform, citizens could vote in favor of certain projects to make amendments to the budget. Deputy Molon promised to present the amendments and vote according to what was decided by the citizens. The online consultation was carried out for the first time between September and October 2019. More than 1000 people participated and the priority areas of intervention defined by the online vote were mainly education, social assistance and human rights, and the environment. Citizens could also express preferences on whether to accumulate larger amounts of money in fewer projects or vice versa, as well as whether to invest in existing projects or start new ones. Subsequently, according to the expressed preferences, the Deputy's team submitted a series of concrete proposals in the preferred areas, where citizens could vote to prioritize projects. The site also allows users to register to monitor the execution of projects in the future.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- 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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