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Aragon Participa: the strategic democratic innovation of Aragon

Country

Spain

Organization

Aragón Regional Government (Gobierno de Aragón)

Type of experience

Theme

SDGs

SDG 16

This experience was presented as a candidate for the 8th IOPD Distinction Best Practice in Citizen Participation (2014)

Description

In a context of permanent and profound change, of growing complexity in the management of public affairs, building a relational Administration has become one of the main challenges of democratic systems. A process of democratic deepening requires assuming that greater participation, complementing and improving the representative system, enriches public decisions by incorporating the knowledge and experiences of citizenship, reinforces adhesion of the recipients of policies present in the preparation process , promotes social responsibility, moving, thanks to public debate, of particular interest to the common interest, and improves the efficiency of public action, given its better adaptation to social needs expressed.