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Osasco, Brazil

Spread the social participation through the territory for citizens participated at the formulation process of budget and its monitoring, occupying the spaces, strengthening the transparency by a citizen language (BROSC0001)

Overview

At-a-Glance

Action Plan: Action plan – Osasco, Brazil, 2021 – 2024

Inception Report Summary: Inception Report – Action plan – Osasco, Brazil, 2021 – 2024

Commitment Start: Sep 2021
Commitment End: Aug 2023

Institutions involved:

  • Management and Planning Secretary
  • Department of Open Government and Strengthening Citizenship
  • PróCidade
  • Finances Secretary
  • Executive Secretary for Children and Youth
  • Information Technology Subsecretary
  • Labora
  • Management and Planning Secretary
  • Executive Secretary for Racial Equality Promotion Policies
  • Department of Employment, Labor and Income
  • Management and Planning Secretary
  • Controladoria Geral do Município

Primary Policy Area:

Primary Sector:

OGP Value:

  • Access to information
  • Public Accountability
  • Civic Participation

Inception Report Summary

The commitment is a continuation of ongoing practice in line with existing legislation, policies or requirements.

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).

Description

Commitment ID

BROSC0001

Commitment Title

Spread the social participation through the territory for citizens participated at the formulation process of budget and its monitoring, occupying the spaces, strengthening the transparency by a citizen language

Problem

This commitment intends to surpass some challenges in state and society relationship, especially population distrust at the public service. The whole process puts these two stakeholders far apart, the extensive technicality language that the actual budget brings, the difficulty between the planning schedule with the resource application and what the public demands decided at the participative process are some of the reasons that disturb this relationship. Added to these problems faced by direct democracy, there are others kind of trammels that social participation face, such as long work hours and family responsibility that troubles this stakeholder's participation. The commitment co-creation revels that Osasco still have high levels of bureaucratization of public processes, its citizen doesn't feel part of the planning process, doesn't have a channel to dialogue with people and if there is something that can be related to that is disorganized and limit to the center of the city, on top of that, there isn't a well-structured language to talk about public resource.

Status quo

Indicators has shown where social participation stands today in Osasco, at our transparency platforms “Visão 360” and “Portal da Transparência”, in 2020, we had a total of 3.822.199 accesses, social participation platform “Participa Osasco” had 11.601 at the same year. Additionally, Osasco’s Administration had 2 public consultation and 2 public hearings also in 2020. Finally, when comes to actual social participation we have “Conselhos Municipais” an organization related to aspecific theme (health, education, etc) which their members can be anyone, citizens, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and so on, and they have some level of decision-making, at 2021, 62,5% of these organization were active in Osasco.

Action

The commitment intends to teach and bring awareness to bureaucrats on how to make budget language accessible and comprehensive to public in general, sharing knowledge and making citizens feel part of the territory and its policies by using technology and didactic material, besides promoting simpler process with guaranteed wide and accessible communication. Also, making public data understandable and attractive to social participation. Hopefully, we will be able to reinvent approaches, facilitating and stimulating society to participate in making public policies and also, making a well-structured accountability platform for present the result of this participation.

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?

As for the products, the expectation is that the implementation of the commitment will enable the territorialization of the participation of the population of Osasco in discussions and decisions during the preparation of the municipal budget; reactivate the inactive "Conselhos Municipais”in order to re-establish the actions and activities of this instance of social participation and communication with citizens; increase in the number of participants in the actions of participation and transparency in the elaboration of the municipal budget. In terms of results, it is expected that the implementation of the commitment will make the City Hall better suited to the commitment to open government and that the population itself will be connected with this agenda through participation in activities and initiatives in this regard, in addition to the collaboration in this cultural transformation.

What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?

This commitment is related to Open Government Strategic Vision that are about the relationship between the citizens and governamental administration to improve the social participation, by the internet or not, in all Osasco’s districts for a public policy that is made together. In this case, the co-creation process bets on theme of social participation in the public budget as fundamental for people know the work of the city hall and also to simplify the proceedings and the public comunication for a bigger and more effective participation in the formulation, implementation, monitoring and avaluation of the public policies.

Primary Policy Area

Fiscal Openness

Primary Sector

Public Services (general)

What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?

Access to information This first commitment will be able to make the budget more accessible for the people and once that’s made social participation can demand more resource for them and be a part of effective public policyThis first commitment will be able to make the budget more accessible for the people and once that’s made social participation can demand more resource for them and be a part of effective public policy
Public Accountability Once we make the budget understandable, administration can be accountable with society, which can also demand for specific policies and solve public problemsOnce we make the budget understandable, administration can be accountable with society, which can also demand for specific policies and solve public problems
Civic Participation With a civic language, budget can make administration and society closer to each other, that will relate a sentiment of trust between them and make decision-making more inclusiveWith a civic language, budget can make administration and society closer to each other, that will relate a sentiment of trust between them and make decision-making more inclusive

Milestones

7 Milestones
1

Elaborate and provide digital and printed content periodic with citizen language and acessible about public budgets at the 46 public facilities (Unidades Básicas de Saúde, Centro de Referência de Assistência Social e Centro de Referência Especializado em Assistência Social), the city’s official website and social media

Start Date02/2022
End Date02/2023
  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Stuck
  • Finished
  • Incomplete
2

Territorialize the participation on budget planning with itinerant metodologies, using public spaces and facilities, in a permanently and continuosly

Start Date02/2022
End Date10/2022
  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Stuck
  • Finished
  • Incomplete
3

Reformulate, update and spread the transparency platform ‘Visão 360’, as an way of making the government strategic projects more transparent in áreas as Education, Health System, Environment, Infraestructure, and anothers, and aproximate the population to the execution of these projects

Start Date10/2021
End Date12/2022
  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Stuck
  • Finished
  • Incomplete
4

Promote hearings and public consultation (online and presencial) at Osasco’s city in a discentralized way, in order to pontecialize and guarantee the citizen participation

Start Date09/2021
End Date12/2022
  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Stuck
  • Finished
  • Incomplete
5

Create government instance to reativate the inactives Municipal Participatory Councils, with educational actions about the public budget, improving the role of its members as facilitators to spread information and share the education actions with others citizens

Start Date09/2021
End Date07/2023
  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Stuck
  • Finished
  • Incomplete
6

Adjust the Transparency Plataform, adapting it to Information Access Law’ updating (number xxx) making it more interactive, acessible and with simple language

Start Date03/2022
End Date08/2023
  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Stuck
  • Finished
  • Incomplete
7

Create projects for training multipliers on the subject of budgeting and planning as a way to engage the population in spaces for discussion and participation

Start Date02/2022
End Date10/2022
  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Stuck
  • Finished
  • Incomplete


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