Youth Participatory Budget of San Salvador
The Youth Participatory Budget of San Salvador is a citizen participation tool for young people between 15 and 25 years old. The Municipality of San Salvador has had a participatory budget since 2000. However, as of 2017 it implemented the youth participatory budget so that adolescents can present ideas to be allocated budget. Young people can submit projects in all areas except for public works development.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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