Design a participation model for policies and projects with a territorial impact (ESCAT0001)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Catalonia, Spain, 2021 – 2023
Inception Report: Inception Report – Action plan – Catalonia, Spain, 2021 – 2023
Commitment Start: Dec 2021
Commitment End: May 2023
Institutions involved:
- Secretariat of Open Government
- Ministry of the Vice-Presidency, Digital Policies and Territory
- Network of Transparent Governments
- ACM County Forum
- Citizen Observatory Against Corruption
- Catalan Association of Political Scientists and Sociologists
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Civic Participation
Inception Report Summary
Verifiable: Unclear
Relevance to OGP Values: Yes
The commitment is a new regulation, policy, practice or requirement.
The commitment activities will result in a change of the rules, practices or policies that govern a policy area, public sector and/or relationship between citizens and is binding or institutionalized across government or specific institution(s).
To view the detailed final assessment of this commitment read the End of Commitment Report
Description
Commitment ID
ESCAT0001
Commitment Title
Design a participation model for policies and projects with a territorial impact
Problem
- Involving citizens and all of the actors in tackling challenges that have a territorial impact and require collective solutions.
- Generating cross-cutting approaches and visions at the territorial level.
- Generating cross-cutting debates regarding territorial challenges at the supra-municipal level.
- Need to improve transparency, trust and coherence.
- Having a high-quality model that can be extrapolated to administrations at different levels.
- Including people of all ages in the participatory process.
- Equal treatment and equal opportunities in diversity.
Status quo
- There are no mechanisms for tackling problems with a broad impact that extends beyond a specific territory.
- Road map for territorial projects and alignment with the SDGs.
- Currently there are few participatory projects that incorporate a country-wide perspective.
Action
Design a participation model for policies and projects with a territorial impact, in order to collectively create a participation model for projects that have an impact on the territory as a whole and affect all of Catalan society as well as multiple levels of public administration.
The model must incorporate: systems for consulting citizens regarding the most important projects (these systems must also allow for data-based verification); frameworks for multi-level administrative coordination and monitoring and follow-up with citizens; long-term political commitment; transparency and comprehensible language on the part of the administrations involved; training for the different actors involved; innovative methodologies; a variety of communication and participation channels; and outcomes organised in line with the SDGs.
The model must be designed in accordance with a participatory pilot process that includes some of the aforementioned elements, which will act as a trial.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
Some of the expected results mentioned include the following:
- Agree on and facilitate a method for implementing processes of citizen participation that are highly complex, generate controversy among citizens and have a territorial impact.
- Equip all of the administrations in the territory with resources on citizen participation, in order to prevent inequalities.
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
- Public policies are co-created by civil society and the government, with participation from all of the relevant actors in the design stage and throughout the cycle.
- Citizen participation is integrated into public decision-making and citizens are also consulted within the framework of more strategic issues. What is more, the key issues and policies that are to be the subject of participatory discussion are defined in conjunction with citizens, and public administrations incorporate citizen initiatives into the public and policy agenda.
- The existence of genuine and substantial participation motivates citizens to participate, increases their levels of trust in administrations and lessens administrations’ fear of citizen participation.
- Open government brings about cultural change, especially within the framework of public administration, and makes it possible to improve upon every public policy.
- A work ecosystem is created in order to foster open government, in the form of a network that operates through structures that are open, shared and pluralistic so that there is no single body that drags the rest of the organisations along with it; rather, different actors and individuals construct and create meeting spaces or hubs, adopting a communal and coordinated approach to progress.
- An intergenerational, intercultural, gender- and diversity-based perspective is established for all of the processes that take place within the framework of open government.
Primary Policy Area
Inclusion
Primary Sector
Cross-sectoral
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Civic Participation | By facilitating the citizen participation models that are agreed upon by the public administration and citizens, the participation that takes place via this model has a greater impact in both the administrative and civic spheres, because citizens take ownership of it.By facilitating the citizen participation models that are agreed upon by the public administration and citizens, the participation that takes place via this model has a greater impact in both the administrative and civic spheres, because citizens take ownership of it. |