2019 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
13th Edition 2019
Un budget participatif aux couleurs du développement durable (Bordeaux, France)
- Pour rapprocher les citoyens de la décision publique,
- Pour accentuer l’inclusion sociale,
- Pour aménager le territoire en fonction des besoins de ses habitants,
- Pour renouveler l’image du fonctionnement administratif.
Au final ce sont plus de 13 000 votes (5% de la population) qui ont élit
41 projets lauréats fortement engagés sur le plan environnemental. En effet, le budget participatif bordelais fut le seul budget participatif en France thématisé autour du développement durable pour que chacun puisse participer ainsi à la transition écologique du territoire de la ville.
In May 2018, Alain Juppé, Bordeaux’s mayor, wished to implement a participatory budget in order to boost a new dynamic of citizen’s participation by giving the inhabitants the ability of playing a part in the town’s urban project. The distinctive feature is that the rules of the participatory budget was co-develop by members of the municipal majority and opposition in order to bring this tool of citizen participation as widely as possible.
Why such an approach?
In order:
- To bring the citizens closer to public decision,
- To improve social inclusion,
- To arrange the territory according to inhabitants’ needs,
- To polish up the administrative functioning’s image.
At the end, more than 13 300 votes (5% of town’s population) have had elected 41 winning projects, mainly committed to environmental issues. Indeed, Bordeaux’s participatory budget was the only one in France which targeted the topic of sustainable development, so that everyone could participate to the ecologic transition of the town’s territory.
¿Por qué este proceso?
- Para acortar distancias entre ciudadanos y las decisiones públicas.
- Para acentuar la inclusión social.
- Para desarrollar el territorio según las necesidades de sus habitantes.
- Para renovar la imagen del funcionamiento administrativo.
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Conversation with Adel Zakirov - Kazan City Hall
Good Day Dear colleagues!
We found that your project greatly solve a lot of problems among city residents as people themselves are set to choose what projects they want to launch.
However could you please elaborate what is the way of people voting for specific projects? Is it a mobile app or regular meetings where people express themselves on paper-based system?
Thanking you in advance.
Thank you for your questions we are pleased to discuss with colleagues of other countries.
Bordeaux’s resident have the possibility to vote for their 3 pet projects in order of preference. The first choice yields 3 points, the second one 2 points, the third one 1 point.
They can vote via the website of the participatory budget or by paper ballots in every town hall that can be found in every neighborhood of the city. Also a “Grand Forum” was organized in order to let the participants promote their projects to cities inhabitants, which allow them to choose and vote.
Hope we answered your questions,
Here, our website link: https://budgetparticipatif.bordeaux.fr/
Yes, we are pleased to hear that this system is quite similar to our regular process of project selection.
Thank you for quick response!
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