Important : Participatory Budget in PUNE
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Parivartan Bharat
Aug 7, 2012, 2:05:58 AM8/7/12
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You can contribute your suggestions for Budgeting in Pune
Participatory Budget Suggestion Form : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByAe-HNNnOM2MkRsRDk0NmxkYUE
Participatory Budget Process Documentation : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByAe-HNNnOM2MTQzb04wSEo2UnM
What is Participatory Budget ?
Participatory Budgeting programmes are innovative governance processes. They can provide citizens with the opportunity to give their inputs in resource allocation and to monitor public spending. Social and political exclusion can be better addressed as low income and traditionally excluded citizens or groups get the opportunity to participate in decision-making.
The basic pattern of participatory budget processes is that community groups identify spending priorities and submit these to their local civic offices / representatives who transform community priorities into concrete project proposals; facilitators provide technical assistance in project proposal development; once local lists of projects are ready, citizens prioritize these and vote on which projects to fund; the public authority then implements the projects.
In Pune, the municipal corporation initiated participatory budgeting in 2005. Meetings of citizens and civic officials were organized through local agencies such as the National Society for Clean Cities and Nagrik Chetna Manch. A few hundred citizens participated and submitted requests for projects. The experience helped lay a base for citizen engagement in ward level budget processes of the municipality. In 2006-07, a more detailed and formalized process was followed, with facilitation support provided by Janwani and CEE.
The main tasks for citizens is to survey and identify works for their neighbourhoods, submit these in the specified format and to attend a prioritization meeting. At the prioritization meetings, citizens are grouped by electoral ward and then sorted through the lists of requests to arrive at the final lists within the allocated ward budget.
Participatory Budget Process Documentation : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByAe-HNNnOM2MTQzb04wSEo2UnM
What is Participatory Budget ?
Participatory Budgeting programmes are innovative governance processes. They can provide citizens with the opportunity to give their inputs in resource allocation and to monitor public spending. Social and political exclusion can be better addressed as low income and traditionally excluded citizens or groups get the opportunity to participate in decision-making.
The basic pattern of participatory budget processes is that community groups identify spending priorities and submit these to their local civic offices / representatives who transform community priorities into concrete project proposals; facilitators provide technical assistance in project proposal development; once local lists of projects are ready, citizens prioritize these and vote on which projects to fund; the public authority then implements the projects.
In Pune, the municipal corporation initiated participatory budgeting in 2005. Meetings of citizens and civic officials were organized through local agencies such as the National Society for Clean Cities and Nagrik Chetna Manch. A few hundred citizens participated and submitted requests for projects. The experience helped lay a base for citizen engagement in ward level budget processes of the municipality. In 2006-07, a more detailed and formalized process was followed, with facilitation support provided by Janwani and CEE.
The main tasks for citizens is to survey and identify works for their neighbourhoods, submit these in the specified format and to attend a prioritization meeting. At the prioritization meetings, citizens are grouped by electoral ward and then sorted through the lists of requests to arrive at the final lists within the allocated ward budget.
For more details visit : http://parivartan-pune.blogspot.in/2011/08/participatory-budget.html
A meeting has been organized by Janwani in this regards.
Do attend.
Janwani Meeting :
Date : 8th August, 2012
Time : 3:30pm to 5pm.
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