2022 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
16th Edition
The Rionegro en Buenas Manos (Rionegro in good hands) - Participatory Budget program seeks to generate investment projects that allow the positive progress of the populations in each of its communes and districts. Thus, this program, which launched its first version in October 2020 and its second version in August 2021, consists of a bag of 8 billion pesos for each version, a resource that is assigned to the projects of community organizations that reach the minimum score until the available resource is exhausted.
With a participatory planning approach, the program is aimed at the 90 active Community Action Boards in the territory that bring together nearly 9,500 people, having 5 lines of participation in which the communities can register the projects they prioritize for the solution of your needs:
- Environment and basic sanitation
- Innovative, interactive and digital community
- Recreation, culture and sport
- Safety, health and coexistence
- Sustainable development and equipment
To achieve effective participation, the Rionegro en Buenas Manos program was socialized to all the presidents of the Community Action Boards, an official launch was made and broadcast through social networks with the aim of informing the community in general, The Let's Participate application was used, a virtual tool that emerged as a response to the covid-19 pandemic. Educational spaces were created for the training of Community Action members in project management and office automation in alliance with the Higher School of Public Administration (ESAP) and SENA. Finally, an evaluation is made of the projects formulated by the Community Action Boards to ensure that the initiatives to be carried out have technical feasibility, citizen consensus and are suitable for solving the needs of the Rio Negro communities.
The Rionegro en Buenas Manos program mainly seeks the inclusion and participation of the population of the Municipality, represented in its Community Action Boards and Local Administrative Boards, in the planning, execution and control of the public budget through the following purposes:
• Encourage the affiliation, participation and community work of the Rio Negro population through the Community Action Boards and Local Administrative Boards.
• Promote regulatory and organizational compliance of the Community Action Boards in the Municipality of Rionegro.
• Generate trust between citizens and the government with the effective development of projects that improve urban and rural territories.
Main achievements:
• Execution of 39 development projects that bring together 49 Community Action Boards.
• Strengthening of regulatory compliance with the legal requirements of the Community Action Boards.
• Accompaniment to 71 community action boards in document management and training in computer tools.
• New digital spaces were created to guarantee citizen participation through an innovative application in which community action organizations were able to apply for their projects and carry out their document management without physically going to the facilities of the Municipal Mayor's Office.
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He conocido de primera mano este proyecto el cual fue creado en el 2020, dicha administración municipal pensando en que no existian mejores personas que las que viven en los barrios y veredas de la localidad, para que ellos mismos priorizaran su principal necesidad, ya fuese en temas de infraestructura, seguridad, deporte, cultura, tecnologia e innovación, medio ambiente entre otros y que entre todos pudieran elegir según la linea que corresponde, esa principal necedidad, luego de saber, se tendria que entrar a concursar teniendo en cuenta varios criterios. Entiendo que ganaron mas de 35 juntas y que hoy ya gozan de sus ejecuciones. En buena hora por esas iniciativas en las que involucran a las comunidades y las hacen competir entre ellas al final eso se traduce en competitividad.
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