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Scientific Coordination
Boaventura De Sousa Santos, João Arriscado Nunes, Giovanni Allegretti, Marisa Matias, and leonora Schettini Cunha
In the past few years, the practice of Participatory Budgets (PBs) has spread throughout Europe. The goal of this course is to present an account of the different trends and of the opportunities associated with these instruments which articulate participatory democracy and representative democracy, through the writings of specialists outside Portugal. There are five main points which act as a basis for this first Portuguese training event:
* How can the autonomy of local goverment be safeguarded without renouncing wider participation processes?
* How are the technical dimensions associated with PBs processed?
* What are the success indicators of these procedures?
* How and by what procedures can populations be involved in these processes?
* What are the possibilities of PB development within municipal, infra-municipal and supra-municipal plans when faced with budgetary laws and Portuguese socio-institutional traditions?
TRAINING COURSE DESIGNED FOR
Local government officials, borough and municipal Technical Staff, Researchers and Students in the field of the Social Sciences, NGOs and Consultancy Companies.
WORKING LANGUAGES
Portuguese and Spanish.
Simultaneous translation of lectures in other languages.
PARTICIPATION RULES
Enrollment limited to the seating capacity of the Auditorium. 75% of places reserved for technical representatives and local government politicians.
Priority given to pre-enrollments, on a first arrival basis.
Payment to be made between 15th May and 18th June. There will be no refund for anyone failing to attend.
REGISTRATION
Contactos: cursoOP@ces.uc.pt ou 239855570
Inscrição online
COST OF ENROLLMENT
100 Euros – technical representatives and local government politicians, businesses and NGOs.
60 Euros – post-graduate students
35 Euros – the unemployed and MA students
INFORMATION:
Daniel Cardoso (CES): 00351 239 855 570
gestorinfo@ces.uc.pt
http://www.ces.uc.pt/curso-op/
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course structure
Each presentation will have the duration of 50 minutes, to be followed by a 25 minute debate.
22 rd June 2007
9h45-11h00 – Overall Presentation and Pinpointing of the Thematic Axes
This session consists of an interactive presentation of the course objectives, drawing on brief anecdotes of real PB experiences. This session endeavours to help understand the mechanisms which preside over the definition and building up of PBs by means of pinpointing the most common doubts on the part of the political players and technical staff with regard to participatory processes.
Greeting
João Paulo Barbosa de Melo, Chair of C E F A (Centre for Local Government Studies and Training)
Opening session
9h45-10h20
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Director of the Centre for Social Studies and Professor at the School of Economics of Coimbra University. He is also Distinguished Legal Scholar at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the 25th April Documentation Centre.
Facilitator
Brian Wampler, Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, USA, and author of Reconstructing Brazil: Institutional Reform, Economic Liberalism, and Pluralism.
Support
Giovanni Allegretti, Coordinator of the Observatory of Participation Practices (PB-Peoples) and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. He was a consultant for the Venice PB.
Marisa Matias, Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies.
Panel I
11h00-12h30 – A PB Overview in Europe
This session offers a compete overview of the more consolidated European PB experiments. Emphasis will be placed on the comparative dimension, using graphs and data which illustrate the instruments used, the differences in political and technical directions and the main results obtained in ten European countries.
Presentation
Yves Sintomer, Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris VIII, and Assistant Director of the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin, Germany. He coordinated the international survey titled “European Participatory Budgets from a Comparative Viewpoint”.
12h30-13h45 – Lunch
13h45-14h00 – showing of a short film on the Seville PB.
Panel II
14h00-15h15 – The Largest European PB: The Case of Seville
This session aims to proffer greater depth of understanding of a concrete and seriously structured PB case, with a view to answering some of the questions raised by four main themes:
- How to initiate a PB process in a context of political divergence regarding its implementation.
- How to mobilize the population towards participatory processes and guarantee the diversity of participants.
- How to guarantee the autonomy of decision-making in the political sphere, namely where government programmes are concerned.
- How to guarantee the quality of deliberation through population empowerment processes, as also that of the technical staff involved.
Presenter:
Paula Garvin Salazar, Deputy-Chair of the Seville Town Hall, Spain, and official responsible for the PB.
Panel III
15h15-16h30 – Possible Pitfalls in PB Processes and Dialogue with Electronic Democracy Projects
This session sets out to present some examples of pitfalls encountered in the implementation of PB processes and to point to possible solutions. At the same time, every endeavour will be made to discuss alternative forms of articulation between PBs and e-democracy “experimentations”” which represent innovative areas for promoting or co-funding PB experiments.
Presenter:
Daniel Chavez, Researcher with the Amsterdam Transnational Institute, Holland, and scientific coordinator of the programmes New Politics and E-Budgeting for the URB-AL funding line.
16h30-17h00 – Coffee break
Panel IV
17h00-18h30 – Use of Calculus Matrices: Simulation Exercise
By means of simulation excercises including every participant, this session aims to explain, in a practical way, the use of certain technical instruments that may be used as a complement to public decision-making moments in participatory processes.
Presenter:
Jez Hall, Member of the PB Unit, a Church Action on Poverty Project, Manchester, UK, and researcher at the School of Management, Lancaster University.
23rd JUNE 2007
Panel V
9h30-11h30 – Round Table Discussion: Local Councillors as Protagonists
Starting with participatory experiences narrated by some of the parties enrolled in the training course, the session sets out to enable collective proposals for intervention and re-structuring of the processes presented, with the ultimate aim of achieving articulation with PB procedures.
Facilitator
Yves Cabannes, Professor of Urban Management at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, and consultant for countless PB processes in Latin America and Africa. He was Director of the Urban Management Programme of the United Nations UMP-ALC.
Angel Merino, Councillor for Education in the Province of Barcelona
Ana Teresa Vicente, Mayor of Palmela
Luís Miguel Carraça Franco, Mayor of Alcochete
Paulo Quaresma, President of the Executive Cabinet of Carnide District (Lisbon)
Dora Barradas, Advisor of the Mayor of S. Brás de Alportel
11h30-12h30 – General Discussion and Conclusions
Facilitator:
João Arriscado Nunes, Professor at the School of Economics, Coimbra University, researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, co-coordinator of the Nucleus for Schience, Technology and Society Studies.
João Paulo Barbosa de Melo, Chair of C E F A (Centre for Local Government Studies and Training) |
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