Training of the citizen delegates of Menzel Bourguiba
In order to ensure the success of the monitoring mission, the Associative Action organized a training session for the citizen delegates of the municipality of la Marsa 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 as well.
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.
Training of the citizen delegates of la Marsa
In order to ensure the success of the monitoring mission, the Associative Action organized a training session for the citizen delegates of the municipality of la Marsa 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 as well.
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.
Tozeur’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Tozeur organized, on the 3th of Mai 2014, the citizen delegates forum which gathered the 12 citizen elected delegates. The role of the delegates was to sort, by priority, the 12 projects of roads voted by the citizens based on the Participatory Budgeting principles, specifically the principles of equity and solidarity.
The technical service of the municipality attended the forum in order to provide necessary technical and administrative information to the citizen delegates. The financial services took also part in this forum to provide the preliminary estimated cost of each project voted by the citizens, and which is technically realizable. Besides, the local facilitators of the Participatory Budgeting participated in the logistical preparation of this forum, as well as, to provide support to the citizen delegates in their work.
Based on all these pieces of information, and according to the budget allocated to the projects of the Participatory Budgeting process from the municipality of Tozeur (500.000 Tunisian Dinars for the roads), the citizen delegates reached a consensus on a list of 4 projects over 12 to be implemented by the municipality. Moreover, the citizen delegates created monitoring committees in order to supervise and evaluate the implementation of the 4 decided projects, as mentioned in the following documents.
Gabes’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Gabes organized, on the 9th of Mai 2014, the citizen delegates forum which gathered the 24 citizen elected delegates. The role of the delegates was to sort, by priority, the 24 projects of the city embellishment voted by the citizens based on the Participatory Budgeting principles, specifically the principles of equity and solidarity.
The technical service of the municipality attended the forum in order to provide necessary technical and administrative information to the citizen delegates. The financial services took also part in this forum to provide the preliminary estimated cost of each project voted by the citizens, and which is technically realizable. Besides, the local facilitators of the Participatory Budgeting participated the logistical preparation of this forum, as well as, to provide support to the citizen delegates in their work.
Based on all these pieces of information, and according to the budget allocated to the projects of the Participatory Budgeting process from the municipality of Gabes (200.000 Tunisian Dinars for the city embellishment), the citizen delegates reached a consensus on a list of 8 projects over 24 to be implemented by the municipality. Moreover, the citizen delegates created monitoring committees in order to supervise and evaluate the implementation of the 8 decided projects, as mentioned in the following documents.
