Análisis de la participación ciudadana en la construcción del presupuesto participativo en la parroquia Cojitambo en el período 2010-2012. Caso comparativo con la parroquia Ricaurte

Abstract

This paper analyzes the process of citizen participation in the construction of the participatory budget in the town Cojitambo in the period 2010-2012 to propose guidelines that facilitate coordination between local authorities and the community in order to strengthen democracy and improve of life of the population as the process of construction and implementation of Participatory Budgeting in Ecuador dates back to 2000 as an expansion of the experience developed in Porto Alegre (Brazil) with its peculiarities and differences according to the context and has , among others, to cause the crisis of representative democracy. This crisis is marked by the lack of transparency of governance linked to the centralization of state patronage which led to the establishment of participatory processes as a tool of participatory democracy which, in turn, demanded social control and decentralization to improve governance and bring the state to the people.

Participatory budgeting of the Autonomous Decentralized Cojitambo (and general level) is closely related to the State Budget and the community-based distribution meets the population criteria, educational and basic needs, whose tendency tends to consolidate with a frame sustains legal citizen participation on the one hand and the importance of its application in the strengthening of democracy on the other.

Improving thequality of lifeof the populationprimarilyis based on theprovision of basic servicesand that inour case study, should bereflectedfroma holistic viewthat allowslevels of coordinationand cooperation betweenthe various actors inthe parish.Furthermoreincentivepolicies are necessary, consolidationof citizen participationnot onlylocally butsupra-localand decentralization.