Participatory Budgeting

A fundamental aspect of the participatory process is planning, given its importance in sustainable development, constituting an instrument of progressive and continuous change towards better levels in the quality of life of the inhabitants of a territory, taking care to improve development capacities (natural resources, human resources, productive resources and social capital), in order to ensure permanent growth. Local development implies unleashing a process promoted and assumed by all the actors and individuals of a territory; it is oriented to optimise and rationalise the human potential, the institutional, environmental, social, economic and cultural resources of a territory, in a balanced and sustainable way. To this end, it will be important to develop an adequate definition of strategic objectives and prioritisation of actions and projects that allow the use of existing resources in a concerted manner between the different public and civil society actors, as well as coordination between the different levels of government.