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| | | | | Participatory Budgeting for the Common Citizen by Meghana Kulkarni | | | The Origin
Participatory budgeting began in Porto Alegre in Brazil. Major sphere in Brazil – over 250 cities are applying participatory budgeting methods. In recent years Participatory Budgeting initiatives have been taken up in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia as well as in some European cities.
What is Participatory Budgeting?
Participatory Budgeting programs are innovative governance processes. They can provide citizens with the opportunity to give their inputs in resource allocation and to monitor public spending.
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.
Participatory Budgeting in India
Participatory Budgeting has been tried in a few Indian cities as well, especially in Karnataka and Kerala. In Bangalore, Janaagraha facilitated a participatory budget process in 2002-2003 across 10 wards. The experiences gained from this exercise are put down in form of – a book on participatory planning, a video on surveying neighbourhoods, survey forms to record citizen’s requests for works.
This is now helping participatory planning and budgeting processes in cities such as Hubli-Dharwad and Pune.
Janwani Pune’s Initiative:
Janwani promotes direct participation of people in various governance processes. One such initiative has been Participatory Budgeting, wherein a certain amount of the city budget is decided through direct inputs from citizens/citizen groups at large. Janwani Pune has been keenly observing the budget process of PMC with an objective to make it citizen friendly. Increasing public participation is appreciated as the entire concept is intended for the common citizen.
| | | | Article Source : Article-treasure.com | | Publication date : 01-20-2011 | | | | Article by Meghana Kulkarni | | | | Meghana Kulkarni, Admin Assistant at Janwani works towards making Pune truly livalbe. Janwani strives to Envision Pune and make it happen. Janwani being an MCCAI initiative can make things practically work out with able and responsible individuals shouldering it.
http://www.janwani.org/
http://janwanipune.blogspot.com/
| | | | Keywords : janwani pune, participatory budget, people participation, budget pune, planning and budgeting, PMC pune | | | | | |
