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Local Planning and participatory budgeting un Pasto

Country

Colombia

Organization

Pasto City Council

Type of experience

participatory budgeting

Theme

SDGs

SDG 11

This experience was presented as a candidate for 8th IOPD Distinction (2014)

Description

Being Pioneers in the experience of Participatory Budgeting in Colombia, located for mayor of Pasto and Citizenship in a position of high responsibility and commitment to one's own experience and new charges brought in the country.

For this reason, the town of Pasto committed to strengthening leadership and participatory democracy, took the challenge to legitimate a public participation process that is part of our cultural roots: PB - Councils, is today considered an important strategy to empower local citizens in planning the distribution of the Municipal budget.