Citizen projects’ location visit in Sbeitla
At the end of the Citizens’ Forum series, the municipality of Sbeitla organized on the 20th of August 2016 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 Sbeitla municipality’s technical service.
This visit covered the sites of the 09 voted projects of basic infrastructure.
Citizen projects’ location visit in Kef
At the end of the Citizens’ Forum series, the municipality of Kef organized on the 18th of August 2016 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 Kef municipality’s technical service.
This visit covered the sites of the 17 voted projects of basic infrastructure.
Ettahdamen’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Ettadhamen organized, on the 29th of June 2016, the citizen delegates forum which gathered the 12 citizen elected delegates. The role of the delegates was to sort, by priority, the projects 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 Ettahdamen (600.000 Tunisian Dinars for the roads, pavements and embellishment of the city), the citizen delegates reached a consensus on a list of 16 projects over 27 to be implemented by the municipality. Moreover, the citizen delegates created monitoring committees in order to supervise and evaluate the implementation of the decided projects, as mentioned in the following documents.
Ben Arous’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Ben Arous organized, on the 27th of August 2016, the citizen delegates forum which gathered the 12 citizen elected delegates. The role of the delegates was to sort, by priority, the projects 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 Ben Arous (1.725.000 Tunisian Dinars for the roads, pavements and embellishment of the city), the citizen delegates reached a consensus on a list of 40 projects over 48 to be implemented by the municipality. Moreover, the citizen delegates created monitoring committees in order to supervise and evaluate the implementation of the decided projects, as mentioned in the following documents.
