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CONSEJERÍA DE ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL
Y RELACIONES INSTITUCIONALES
CALLS
Organizer
II Iberian Meeting on
Participatory Budgeting
2014
Ceulaj • Mollina (Andalusia)
II Iberian Meeting on Participatory Budgeting 2014
Defending local democray,
decentralizing down to citizens.
On the 14th and 15th March 2013, the Andalusian town of Mollina will host the II Iberian
Meeting on Participatory Budgeting under the title «Defending local democracy.
Decentralizing down to citizens». This event aims at exchanging experiences and analyzing
participatory budgeting and other forms of participatory democracy for its promotion and
strengthening in the Iberian Peninsula.
Unlike most policies, participatory budgeting responds to the need of relocating the citizen
at the heart of public decisions. The implementation of such policies, which naturally
requires a complex process, is nowadays facing the extra difficulty resulting from the trend
towards recentralization of the State as a pretended austerity measure.
Participatory budgeting processes have brought significant innovation into the institutional
dynamic of dozens of experiences carried out in Spain and Portugal. Originated in Brazil,
these processes arrived to the Peninsula after their recognition by the UN (Habitat II,
Istanbul 1996) as one of the best practices for local management. Wherever these processes
have been implemented, their results have had positive impacts in terms of transparency
and social control over public policies. Besides, it is observed that policies get closer to the
territorial and citizen demands, while improving social and environmental sustainability on
local development dynamics.
The parallel evolution of both countries, together with the cultural, social and geographical
proximity, and the common bets on this field have lead to a will of meeting, dialogue
and coordination. From 2010, both countries share a common peninsular agenda on
participatory budgeting, with the Odemira Iberian Meeting held in Portugal in 2012 as its
main event.
This meeting will be conceived as a space for dialogue, joint reflection and exchange of
experiences and knowledge, between institutional and social stakeholders and researchers
from Portugal and Spain. The focus will concern the cities involved, their elected
representatives, their citizens and their technical staff. The meeting will open a space for
participants from other countries, in order to help to identify the international context and
to compare the Iberian experiences on participatory budgeting with other realities.
Contact:  www.facebook.com/encuentroiberico
Person of contact: Jose Manuel Luque
Phone: +34 677 905 908
Mail: josem.luque.galvez@juntadeandalucia.es

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II Iberian Meeting on Participatory Budgeting (english).

  • 1. CONSEJERÍA DE ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL Y RELACIONES INSTITUCIONALES CALLS Organizer II Iberian Meeting on Participatory Budgeting 2014 Ceulaj • Mollina (Andalusia)
  • 2. II Iberian Meeting on Participatory Budgeting 2014 Defending local democray, decentralizing down to citizens. On the 14th and 15th March 2013, the Andalusian town of Mollina will host the II Iberian Meeting on Participatory Budgeting under the title «Defending local democracy. Decentralizing down to citizens». This event aims at exchanging experiences and analyzing participatory budgeting and other forms of participatory democracy for its promotion and strengthening in the Iberian Peninsula. Unlike most policies, participatory budgeting responds to the need of relocating the citizen at the heart of public decisions. The implementation of such policies, which naturally requires a complex process, is nowadays facing the extra difficulty resulting from the trend towards recentralization of the State as a pretended austerity measure. Participatory budgeting processes have brought significant innovation into the institutional dynamic of dozens of experiences carried out in Spain and Portugal. Originated in Brazil, these processes arrived to the Peninsula after their recognition by the UN (Habitat II, Istanbul 1996) as one of the best practices for local management. Wherever these processes have been implemented, their results have had positive impacts in terms of transparency and social control over public policies. Besides, it is observed that policies get closer to the territorial and citizen demands, while improving social and environmental sustainability on local development dynamics. The parallel evolution of both countries, together with the cultural, social and geographical proximity, and the common bets on this field have lead to a will of meeting, dialogue and coordination. From 2010, both countries share a common peninsular agenda on participatory budgeting, with the Odemira Iberian Meeting held in Portugal in 2012 as its main event. This meeting will be conceived as a space for dialogue, joint reflection and exchange of experiences and knowledge, between institutional and social stakeholders and researchers from Portugal and Spain. The focus will concern the cities involved, their elected representatives, their citizens and their technical staff. The meeting will open a space for participants from other countries, in order to help to identify the international context and to compare the Iberian experiences on participatory budgeting with other realities. Contact:  www.facebook.com/encuentroiberico Person of contact: Jose Manuel Luque Phone: +34 677 905 908 Mail: josem.luque.galvez@juntadeandalucia.es