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.