The "Participatory Budging, People Voice in
numbers" is a 16 months project funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands in Jordan.
The project works in 6 municipalities in Jordan (2 in the
North region, 2 in the center region, and 2 in the south region) and aims at
"enhancing the opportunities for public participation in the budgeting
process as well as to improve public access to timely and accurate information
on Municipal budgets and expenditures"
Throughout the implementation of the project,
Partners-Jordan managed to conduct several activities in order to raise
awareness of civil society organizations, local community members and
municipality staff, on developing participatory municipal budgets and its
importance, through conducting awareness workshops in the selected
municipalities.
More importantly, Partners-Jordan managed to build up and
develop the budgets of the six selected municipalities in accordance with
peoples priority needs in the six-targeted municipalities. And was able to
designate 105,000 JOD for people priorities in Fuhis Municipality, 120,300JOD
in Nao'or Municipality, 25,000JOD in Naseem Municipality, 29,000JOD in Kafarat
Municipality, 13,00JOD in Shehan Municipality and finally 1,104,00JOD designated
for people priorities in Karak Municipality.