Category Archive Municipality of Tozeur

Training of the citizen delegates of Tozeur

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 Tozeur 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.

Tozeur’s Participatory Budgeting Citizen Forums

In the context of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Touzeur organized 4 citizen forums through which the citizens participated in proposing project ideas of roads, 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 Touzeur, and had been organized between the 5th and 27th of April 2014, respectively in the following neighborhoods : Houadef and its neighberhoods, aerpoport city, Ezdihar and Helba city, et Hadhar city. 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, 137 citizens participated to present their project ideas related to roads, and to select the priority projects. The result of the organizations of the 4 citizens forums was a list of 12 project ideas of public lightening. Besides,  the citizens elected 12 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 Touzeur 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.

Signature of the Participatory Budgeting Partnership agreement of the municipality of Tozeur

On the 15th of Februrary 2014, the municipality of Tozeur signed an officiel partnership agreement with the local NGOs to implement the Participatory Budgeting process. The partnership agreement included all the tasks and responsabilities of each stakeholders during the process (see the document below).

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