Elaboración de proyecto de acuerdo de 2023 “por medio del cual se establecen lineamientos para la implementación de los presupuestos participativos en los proyectos de inversión local del Distrito Capital

The Bogotá District Administration launched its participatory budget program in 2020, with an increase in investment resources of up to fifty percent of the investment budget in the 20 Local Development Funds. However, through a qualitative research exercise using focus groups and semi-structured interviews, this consultancy showed that there are flaws in all five stages of the process, resulting in the central problem of public management: high complexity in the methodology of execution in all phases of participatory budgets for the 20 Local Development Funds in Bogotá. This has been interpreted through the reading of three obstacles i) a decrease in citizen participation, ii) lack of interest in project submission by citizens, and iii) a perception of low transparency in the process. As a solution, the consultancy proposes a District Agreement project that establishes a methodological framework and develops its wording around, generating communication strategies that stimulate citizenship interest, the establishment of clear and simple participation parameters for initiative submission, the structuring of projects in participatory budgets, and an increase in transparency in all stages throughout clear and accessible information.