Tabarka’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Tabarka organized, on the 14th of December 2018, the citizen delegates forum which gathered the 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 Tabarka (400.000 Tunisian Dinars for the roads, public lightening and rainwater management), the citizen delegates reached a consensus on a list of 20 projects. 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.
Mahdia’s citizen delegates forum
After the organization of the citizen forums of the Participatory Budgeting process, the municipality of Mahdia organized, on the 21st of December 2018, the citizen delegates forum which gathered the 9 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 Mahdia (400.000 Tunisian Dinars for the roads and pavements, public lightening and embellishment of the city), the citizen delegates reached a consensus on a list of the projects. 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.
Citizen projects’ location visit in Tabarka
At the end of the Citizens’ Forum series, the municipality of Tabarka organized on the 20th of December 2018 a visit to the location of the projects voted by the citizens and approved by the technical service of the municipality for their technical and administrative feasibility.
This visit was made in the presence of the 19 elected citizen delegates, the local participatory budgeting facilitators and representatives of Tabarka municipality’s technical service.
This visit covered the sites of the 19 voted projects of basic infrastructure.
Citizen projects’ location visit in Mahdia
At the end of the Citizens’ Forum series, the municipality of Mahdia organized on the 20th of December 2018 a visit to the location of the projects voted by the citizens and approved by the technical service of the municipality for their technical and administrative feasibility.
This visit was made in the presence of the 9 elected citizen delegates, the local participatory budgeting facilitators and representatives of Mahdia municipality’s technical service.
This visit covered the sites of the 9 voted projects of basic infrastructure.
