Training of municipal elections’ candidates of Ariana
On the 31st of March and 1st of April 2018, the Associative Action organized a training session on the participatory mechanisms to be implemented by the municipalities, to the municipal elections’s candidates of city of Ariana.
The training was followed by signature of Participatory Democracy Charter by the candidates participating in the training, and who belonged to different political parties and independent lists.
The Charter represents a moral commitment from all the candidates to apply participatory mechanisms, which takes into consideration the criteria mentioned in the Charter.
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Ariana’s Participatory Budgeting Citizen Forums
In the context of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Ariana organized 4 citizen forums through which the citizens participated in proposing project ideas of basic infrastructure, voting for the priority projects of their neighborhoods, and electing citizens delegates whose mission is to monitor the implementation of the final list of projects.
The 4 citizen forums covered the whole municipal zone of Ariana, and had been organized between the 23th of September and 1st of October 2017, respectively in the following places : Ariana ville, Ariana superieure, Al Manazah, Riadh Ennaser. A communication campaign preceded the organization of the citizen forums to inform and invite the citizens to take part in the public meetings. Different kind of communication tools had been used during this campaign such as : Flyers, Posters, Banners, car loud-speaker service, radio broadcasts …
In this first year / edition of the Participatory Budgeting, 196 citizens participated to present their project ideas related to roads, and to select the priority projects. The result of the organizations of the 5 citizens forums was a list of 57 project ideas of basic infrastructure. Besides, the citizens elected 16 citizen delegates in order to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the final list of projects.
Citizen Participation Rate
The citizen forums were organized by the municipality of Ariana in collaboration with the local civil society organizations, which provided volunteer members to play the role of “local facilitators” of the Participatory Budgeting. These facilitators ensured, in partnership with the municipality : the implementation of the communication plan to inform and invite the citizen to participate in the citizen forums; the preparation and the organization of the citizen forums; and the support of the citizen delegates in their monitoring and evaluation mission.
Training of the citizen delegates of Ariana
In order to ensure the success of the monitoring mission, the Associative Action organized, on the 7th of February 2018, a training session for the citizen delegates of the municipality of Ariana on the implementation process of the municipal projects. The technical services of the municipality as well as the local facilitators of the Participatory Budgeting attended this session.
The training presented all the administrative and on-the-ground steps related to the implementation of municipal projects. By the end of the training, every citizen delegate received a copy of a monitoring and evaluation guide of the municipal projects, edited by the Associative Action in collaboration with the technical services of the municipality.
Participatory Budgeting local facilitators seminar – 2017
On the 20th & 21st of January 2017, the “Associative Action” organized a sharing experiences’ seminar for the local facilitators of the municipalities of Ariana, Monastir, Sidi Bouzid, Gremda, Béjà & Zaghouan, who contributed to the implementation of the Participatory Diagnosis as well as the Participatory Budgeting process in their municipalities.
This seminar was a good opportunity for the local facilitators to exchange experiences with each other, assess the results achieved in each city, and work out a plan to ensure the sustainability of the process.
