Participação dos cidadãos no processo de orçamentação participativa: o caso do município da cidade de Maputo (2008-2011)

Abstract

The implementation of the participatory budgeting process in Mozambique is part of the context of the institutional changes that have been occurring in the course of local governance in the parents. It was based on the idea that Participatory Budgeting has proved to be an important mechanism that contributes to the consolidation of democracy, through the direct participation of citizens in decision-making on the allocation of public resources for the implementation of specific projects, that the present study was developed to analyze whether the Budget Participatory, as a mechanism of democratic municipal governance, meant the citizen participation. Taking as its object the Municipality of Cidade da Cidade Maputo, the research found that the citizen participation in the participatory budgeting process was formal and consultative to the extent that there was an absence of explicit debate on the financial dimension of the OP, with the action of citizens being limited to the act of raising problems, discussing and election of priorities and small Participative Budget, when in fact, what gives more meaning to the exercise of participatory budgeting is the involvement of citizens throughout the process cycle and the effective sharing of decision-making power with the municipal executive,on the destination of municipal public revenues.