Participatory Budgeting in the Municipality of Elbasan

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Participatory Budgeting in the Municipality of
Elbasan
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Participatory Budgeting Cycle
Start up and Memorandum of Understanding

• Memorandum of Understanding and Municipal
  Council Approval
• Contracting local NGOs RDA, CSDC

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Organization and Training

• Training of Municipal staff and local NGOs
• Sensitization campaign
• Geographical division
• Poverty mapping, under the framework of
  strategic planning

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Capacity Building
Communication Campaign
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Participatory Budgeting Cycle
First Cycle 10 community meetings

• Information campaign PB process
  demystification of municipal budget municipal
  investments for 2005

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Capacity building
4 Foto procesi
Second cycle 10 community meetings

• Selection of priorties
• Election of the community representatives

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Communication campaign
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Participatory Budgeting Committee
Elbasan City Development Strategy
10 community representatives
10 municipal staff

• Participatory Budgeting
• Community
• Municipality of Elbasan
• Co-PLAN
• ERDA and CSDC
• University A. Xhuvani

4 representatives from thematic groups
10 community representative with no voting
power Municipal council representatives with no
voting power
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Participatory budgeting cycle

• 2 days Caravan
• 5 meetings of the PB commettee
• 2 meetings training and criteria setting
• 3 meetings priority assessment and approval of
  the final list of priorities

Negotiation phase
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Capacity building
4 Foto nga Karvani dhe Komisioni
Communication campaign
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Participatory budgeting
Institutionalization and sustainability of the
process

1. PBP within the process for strategic planning
2. Involvement of civic society local NGOs and
   University
3. Involvement of local media and continous
   transparency
4. Set a budget line in the municipal balance sheet
   to support PBP in the future years

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Participatory budgeting
To be taken into consideration improvement of
the PBP in the future

1. Review the territorial division
2. Review the citizen engagement process
3. Establishment of a monitoring system
4. Initiation of the PBP when?