2019 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
13th Edition 2019
Un budget participatif aux couleurs du développement durable (Bordeaux, France)
- Pour rapprocher les citoyens de la décision publique,
- Pour accentuer l’inclusion sociale,
- Pour aménager le territoire en fonction des besoins de ses habitants,
- Pour renouveler l’image du fonctionnement administratif.
Au final ce sont plus de 13 000 votes (5% de la population) qui ont élit
41 projets lauréats fortement engagés sur le plan environnemental. En effet, le budget participatif bordelais fut le seul budget participatif en France thématisé autour du développement durable pour que chacun puisse participer ainsi à la transition écologique du territoire de la ville.
In May 2018, Alain Juppé, Bordeaux’s mayor, wished to implement a participatory budget in order to boost a new dynamic of citizen’s participation by giving the inhabitants the ability of playing a part in the town’s urban project. The distinctive feature is that the rules of the participatory budget was co-develop by members of the municipal majority and opposition in order to bring this tool of citizen participation as widely as possible.
Why such an approach?
In order:
- To bring the citizens closer to public decision,
- To improve social inclusion,
- To arrange the territory according to inhabitants’ needs,
- To polish up the administrative functioning’s image.
At the end, more than 13 300 votes (5% of town’s population) have had elected 41 winning projects, mainly committed to environmental issues. Indeed, Bordeaux’s participatory budget was the only one in France which targeted the topic of sustainable development, so that everyone could participate to the ecologic transition of the town’s territory.
¿Por qué este proceso?
- Para acortar distancias entre ciudadanos y las decisiones públicas.
- Para acentuar la inclusión social.
- Para desarrollar el territorio según las necesidades de sus habitantes.
- Para renovar la imagen del funcionamiento administrativo.
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Thank you for all the clarification.
We will consult your website to follow your project.
Keep up the good work.
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