Lesson XI

Lesson VI

Civic participation

                                                                                   

Civic participation

    • Civic participation seeks to involve citizens actively in decision making, planning and public matters management that affect their lives.

    • Administrations have developed many initiatives in the last years to encourage citizens to planning and execute public politics.

    * Participatory Budgeting: allow cities and towns to educate, engageand empower their citizens along with strengthening their governance

    • Referendum: The decision making responsibility is transferred to the citizens, who will be in charge of decide, by voting and majority, which proposal will be carried out and which ones don´t

    • Civic queries: It consist on knowing the citizens opinions throw series of well-defined questions dealing with future public actions or assessment regarding the action of the authorities

    • Child plenary session: It is oriented to encourage democratic participation in the young citizens

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