Castilla - La Mancha: Participation and civic space (ES0162)

10.11.1. Preparation and evaluation of the Annual Citizen Participation Programme of Castilla-La Mancha

Brief description

The following must be included in the Annual Citizen Participation Programme, indicating the participation instruments and procedures chosen for each of these areas:
a) The development of plans or programmes that directly affect citizens, except for those planning instruments provided for in sectoral legislation.
b) Draft laws affecting civil, political and social rights, as well as draft regulations that constitute the general development of the aforementioned rules.
c) The evaluation of the provision of the main public services aimed at citizens.
d) Any other public policies that the competent regional ministries consider appropriate to submit to participation procedures or instruments.

Objectives

The Annual Citizen Participation Programme will be the strategic document containing the regulatory projects, plans or programmes derived from the public policies developed by the Regional Administration, contributing to:
• Significantly improving cohesion, efficiency and effectiveness within the Regional Administration, addressing these and other issues proactively and systematically.
• Creating structured spaces and processes for citizens to actively contribute to decision-making.
• Facilitate a more transparent, responsible and inclusive relationship between the government and citizens, strengthening democracy and improving the quality of decisions and public policies.

"10.11.2. Promotion and extension of participatory culture among local entities in the autonomous community

Brief description

Drafting of a Model Ordinance on Participation by Local Authorities in Castilla-La Mancha, as a unified regulatory framework designed to regulate and promote citizen participation in local decision-making. This ordinance will establish clear and accessible guidelines to ensure that participatory processes in all municipalities in the region are consistent, inclusive, transparent and effective.

Creation of a participatory space within the autonomous community's Citizen Participation Portal to provide a digital tool to local entities in the region that require it, with the aim of helping them to launch and implement participatory processes at the local level. This measure will promote citizen participation and contribute to spreading the values of Open Government among local entities in the region. Updating and dissemination of a guide to participatory budgeting at the local level, ""Methodological guide for the design and promotion of participatory budgeting processes in local authorities in Castilla-La Mancha"". The municipal budget establishes which projects or initiatives a local authority spends or invests in, how much is allocated to each expenditure or investment project, and how that expenditure or investment is financed through revenue, which ultimately represents the joint contribution of citizens to partially finance public services. For this reason, citizen participation in the preparation of budgets adds special value to municipal management, as it brings citizens closer to understanding their budget and deciding on the priorities in which to invest municipal resources.

Objectives

• To provide local authorities in the region with a digital tool to help them launch and implement participatory processes at the local level.
• To encourage citizen participation in the municipalities of Castilla-La Mancha.
• To disseminate the values of Open Government among local authorities in the region and, therefore, among the residents of Castilla-La Mancha."

10.11.3. Preparation of an Internal Guide for the processing of participatory actions actions

Brief description

Preparation of a guide containing various working documents relating to the processing of participatory processes to facilitate their publication, management and monitoring by the regional administration's management bodies.

Objectives

Develop and provide clear, accessible and standardised guidelines to facilitate the implementation, management and monitoring of participatory processes by regional government bodies, promoting transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in citizen participation, with the aim of strengthening democracy and ensuring that all citizens have the tools and knowledge necessary to become actively involved in public decision-making"

"10.11.4. Health and Society Project: construction of a model for social participation in health in Castilla-La Mancha

Brief description

This commitment focuses on designing and implementing a regional model for managing social participation in health in Castilla-La Mancha that guarantees the active involvement of stakeholders and promotes a more inclusive, efficient, equitable and humanised health system, benefiting different levels or strata:
a) Macro or planning level (design of policies and strategies).
b) Meso or management level (improvements and initiatives in health management).
c) Micro or care level (professional-patient relationship).

To this end, we understand that the model must be devised and constructed through a participatory process involving the key agents of the health ecosystem themselves.
We understand that the model generated should define and build, among other things, the following PARTICIPATION MECHANISMS in the Health Service, as well as the processes and structures necessary to implement them:
1. Processes of citizen consultation and deliberation for the design of specific programmes, projects or policies.
2. Management methodologies based on patient experience.
3. Stable spaces/forums for citizen participation (Health Councils, Committees and Commissions in the Health Service, etc.).
4. Standardised procedure for collaboration with social entities and agents in the field of health (patient associations, NGOs, citizen platforms, etc.).
5. Social and healthcare volunteer programme.
6. Model for listening and active participation by professionals in management decision-making.
7. Standardisation of a regional process for citizen care.

Objectives

In developing this model, the commitment we have made in this 5th Open Government Plan is focused on five main objectives:
1. Create the regional structures and teams necessary to promote and support the Social Participation in Health Model: Regional Office for Humanisation and Participation in Health in Castilla-La Mancha and Health and Society Project Promotion Group.
2. Design and develop a structured participatory process with all stakeholders involved, through which the model will be built.
3. Have a document/National Action Plan in place that defines the participation model and the roadmap for its implementation.
4. Establish a regulatory framework that guarantees qualified and effective participation through the health participation mechanisms defined in the previous section.
5. Define a standardised channel and process for citizen services at the regional level"