Gafsa’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Gafsa organized, on the 16th of Juin 2015, the citizen delegates forum which gathered the 15 citizen elected delegates. The role of the delegates was to sort, by priority, the 15 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 feasible. 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 Gafsa (700.000 Tunisian Dinars for the roads), the citizen delegates reached a consensus on a list of 9 projects over 15 to be implemented by the municipality. Moreover, the citizen delegates created monitoring committees in order to supervise and evaluate the implementation of the 9 decided projects, as mentioned in the following documents.
Manouba’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of la Manouba organized, on the 22nd of June 2015, 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 public lightening 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 feasible. 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 la Manouba (350.000 Tunisian Dinars for the public lightening), all the 12 projects were included to be executed as the estimated cost of these projects was equal to the total budget allocated by the municipality to the Participatory Budgeting process. 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.
Citizen projects’ location visit in Gafsa
At the end of the Citizens’ Forum series, the municipality of Gafsa organized on the 15th of June 2015 a visit to the location of the projects voted by the citizens and aprouved by the technical service of the municipality for their technical and administrative feasibility.
This visit was made in the presence of the 15 elected citizen delegates, the local participatory budgeting facilitators and representatives of Gafsa municipality’s technical service.
This visit covered the sites of the 14 voted projects of roads and pavements.
Citizen projects’ location visit in Manouba
At the end of the Citizens’ Forum series, the municipality of Manouba organized on the 21th of June 2015 a visit to the location of the projects voted by the citizens and approuved by the technical service of the municipality for their technical and administrative feasibility.
This visit was made in the presence of the 12 elected citizen delegates, the local participatory budgeting facilitators and representatives of Manouba municipality’s technical service.
This visit covered the sites of the 12 voted projects of public lightening.
