Africa-Press – Angola. Three hundred and 28 million kwanzas were made available by the Executive to municipal administrations for the consultation process within the framework of the Participatory Budget, ongoing in the country, said, in Luanda, the Secretary of State for Local Authorities, Márcio Daniel.
The person in charge, who closed the launching ceremony of the III edition of the Participatory Budget Contribution Collection Forum, said that each of the 164 municipal administrations received 2 million kwanzas.
“The Executive thus complies with what is set out in the legislation, in Presidential Decree no. 234/19, of 22 July, on the local context, ensuring, with these values, challenges such as transportation and food for those in contact”, he stressed .
For his part, the executive director of the Angolan Institute of Electoral and Democratic Systems (IASED), Luís Jimbo, announced that 90 percent of municipalities have already held consultation sessions for the Participatory Budget, of which 70 percent are in the process of choice of priorities.
The resident representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Soahangy Mamisoa Rangers, stated that the Participatory Budget Contribution Collection Forum was one of the mechanisms created to advance participatory governance.
He highlighted that the forum presents itself as an important stage of the Participatory Budget, with the aim of giving citizens from all over the country the opportunity to share their needs and priorities.
“It also allows administrations and other local power mechanisms to get to know their residents better, identify their needs, plan their budgets and draw up development plans”, he asserted.
Data from the UNDP indicate that in 2021 the Participatory Budget process received contributions from 10,331 citizens from the country’s 164 municipalities, where the areas of health, education, energy and housing stood out as a priority.
Approved by Presidential Decree 234/19, of 22 July, the Participatory Budget is a tool that the Angolan Executive adopted in the process of administrative deconcentration and decentralization to make citizens more participatory in the preparation and implementation of the budget.
The legal diploma enshrines the active participation of members of management committees, made up of representatives of civil society with the capacity to identify problems and define priorities in the preparation of municipal budgets.
Representatives of political parties, deputies, national directors, municipal, district and communal administrators and members of civil society associations participated in the launch of the III edition of the Contribution Collection Forum for the Participatory Budget.
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