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The first experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) have emerged twenty years ago. During the last two decades, PB has become an unprecedented world phenomenon, present in all Continents.

Portugal is not an exception to this dynamics, with PB gaining an increasing attention from Portuguese society’s political actors, especially Local Governments, Universities and several Civil Society Organizations.

This course intends to contribute to the qualification of Participatory Budgets in Portugal, approaching, in an integrated and sequential way, the critical dimensions of these processes, namely “design”, a “management” e a “evaluation”.

To do so, we will count with the presence of national and foreign experts, mayors who are promoting PB processes and we will also resort to the first world-wide software application to support the above mentioned critical dimensions.

This software does not provide methodologies or attempts to standardize experiences. Its function is to provide support elements to the structuring of PB processes, based on demand and quality criteria of participation dynamics.   

The course’s first module – “Design of Participatory Budgets” – took place place in June, with a set of contents to answer the most common questions related to this kind of processes: focus, territorial division to promote population’s participation, actors of participation, design of participation instruments, definition of the process’s technical and political coordination, definition of priorities, design of the participatory cycle, regulatory framework of PB, among other elements.

The modules “Management” (October 14th and 15th) and “Evaluation” (November 4th and 5th) will be organized on order to address the needs which were diagnosed with the participants during the “Design” module.

EVALUATION Module

November 4th

09h30
Reception of participants

10h00 – 10h30
Opening session
Giovanni Allegretti (Governing Board of CES Lisboa)
Nelson Dias (President of In Loco Association)
Nuno Marques Pereira (Vice-President of CEFA)    
Graça Fonseca (Municipal Councillor of Lisbon)

10h30 – 11h15
Between vague absences and isolated experiments: a panoramic view on the difficult relationship between Participatory Budget current trends
Giovanni Allegretti and Mariana Lopes Alves
(researchers at the Centre for Social Studies)

11h15 – 11h30
Lunch break

11h30 – 13.00
Establishing partnerships to cross “evaluation” and “self-evaluation” of a PB process: the six years of experience at Sevilla, Spain
Virgínia Gutierrez Barbarrusa  (IEPALA, consultant for Sevilla Municipal Council)

13h00 – 14h30
Lunch break

14h30 – 16h00
Evaluate to grow: interview with a Portuguese mayor who promoting a PB process
Augusto Pólvora (Sesimbra Mayor).
Interviewers: Giovanni Allegretti and Isabel Guerra (Dinamia/CET-ISCTE)

16h00 – 16h15
Lunch break

16h15 – 17h15
How to evaluate a Participatory Budget? Analysis of the key variants for the process evaluation, results and impacts
Nelson Dias (President of IN LOCO Association)

 
November 5th

09h30 – 11h00
When the analysis becomes comparative: discussion about a scale amplification in the case of surveys about Participatory Budget in Malaga Province, Spain
Patrícia Garcia Leiva (Malaga University, co-coordinator of the PARLOCAL Project of the Malaga Province)

11h00 – 11h15
Coffee Break

11h15 – 12h45
Practical Simulation on the evaluation of Participatory Budget
Group work.

12h45 – 13h00
Evaluation of the module and diagnosis of needs for future training events

 
Organization:

Centre for Municipal Studies and Training (CEFA)
Centre for Social Studies of University of Coimbra
In Loco Association

 
Registration:

Limited to lecture hall’s capacity
Training Fee:
3rd module – 40 euros
Students 3rd module – 30 euros

Online registration

Contacts:

Tel. 216 012 848
Fax. 216 012 847
Logistics: ceslx@ces.uc.pt
Training: op@in-loco.pt

 
Venue:

CIUL - Centre for Urban Information of Lisbon
Picoas Plaza, Rua Tomás Ribeiro,
1050-233 Lisboa  

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