Participatory Budget of Municipality of Maribor

Municipality of Maribor has supported pilot project to introduce the participatory budget in City quarter of Radvanje, which is the first urban quarter which introduces a pilot model for participation in the use of earmarked public funds in accordance with guidelines of the European Charter of Local Self-Government.

Participatory budget is a system of allocating part of the municipality' budget money to co-decide on its use by the local citizens.

In the process of participatory budget local citizens determine by themselves which are the most urgent investments in the community. In this way the realized investments respond concretely to the needs of the community.

The participatory budget is currently not specifically defined in the Slovenian legislation. Municipality of Maribor approaches to it with the civil society initiative modelled after European cities, where citizens already decide on priority investments within the expected budgets. It is therefore a direct decision making of the implementation queue of projects in urban areas. Out of the proposed projects citizens establish a priority list by voting. Projects which receive the most votes will be included in the municipal budget.

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