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The deadline for proposal submissions is January 31, 2025. To complete your application, you must fill in the online form in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Visit our website to find out more about the terms, the nomination form and Application guidelines.

A jury of experts, organised and divided according to the categories will evaluate the applications and choose the finalists for the award. These will be 50% of the applications received, with a maximum of 40 applications.

Anyone will be able to choose the experiences they consider meritorious of the award. In order to participate in the evaluation, each person must register on the platform and choose a minimum of 5 nominations for their vote to be valid.

The jury will meet to deliberate on the winning best practice, taking into account the citizen vote. The most voted proposal will receive a special mention in case the jury does not designate it as the winner.

The jury has already decided the winning experiences but they will not be made public until the Awards Ceremony in May in Córdoba

Córdoba, Argentina May 21-23

2025 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

19th Edition

About this process

Welcome to the process to select the best practices in local democracy 2025

The Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation" is an award given annually by the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (OIDP) to recognize public policies implemented by local and regional governments.

The aim of this Award is to recognise the experiences that local and regional governments implement in the field of participatory democracy. In this way, the aim is to give visibility to these practices in a more direct way, to bring them closer to other local governments and to serve as examples that could be reproduced, favouring networking.

Nominations may be submitted until 31 January 2025, as the deadline. The evaluation of the candidatures for this 18th IOPD Best Practice Award for Citizen Participation will be made both by juries of experts and by the citizen vote through this platform.

In a first phase the jury will evaluate and select 50% of the entries, with a maximum of 40 selected for the final phase. In the final phase the jury will analyse the selected applications in detail and there will also be an open vote.

This year the evaluation and the awarding of nominations will be organized into five categories:

1) Building more democratic and peaceful communities

2) Urban management and public space

3) Gender and care

4) Ecological Transition and Environment

5) Civic Tech

Reference: oidp-PART-2024-11-64

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