Democratic Participation in Mozambique

The present research work has participatory budgeting as its object of study, starting from the following question: In what way and based on what principles and processes has the Participatory Budget of the city of Maputo worked? Other secondary questions will help to find out; what is the contribution of participatory budgets to participatory democracy models at the Municipal level. Does the participatory model followed by the PB of the city of Maputo allow the participation of citizens? The central object of the analysis was to try to describe and understand how and on the basis of which principles and processes the PB in the city of Maputo has worked (including here dimensions that configure more specific questions: motivation for its adoption by the municipality; model of participatory democracy adopted, active mechanisms in its design and implementation as a public policy (scheduling, formulation, implementation and evaluation).