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| Title |
Action Learning Program on Participatory
Processes for Poverty Reduction Strategies
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| Region |
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| Countries |
Brazil |
| Project Information |
Participatory Approaches in Budgeting
and Public Expenditure Management |
| Keywords |
Brazil, Public Expenditure Management,
participatory, budget |
| Organisations |
The Participation Group, Social
Development Department (SDD), The World Bank
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| Author |
The Participation Group and Social
Development Department (SDD) |
| Document Type |
Case Study |
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| File Name |
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| Abstract |
Run by dictators for over 20
years (1964-1985), Brazil only had a democratic
constitution promulgated in 1998 that allowed
an already active civil society to function
more freely. A country of 156 million, Brazil
has been dubbed one of the most unequal, with
one of the largest numbers of poor people
among comparable middle-income countries.
After the end of dictatorship in 1998, people
who had earlier opposed dictatorships formed
the Workers Party (PT) to seriously take up
the agenda of deepening democracy through
“popular administration” of government. Having
won several municipal elections in 1989, including
Sao Paolo with over 10 million people, the
PT began a creative experiment of engaging
a wide spectrum of people to formulate city
budgets. The Porto Alegre case has, in particular,
having been nominated by the 1996 UN Summit
on Human Settlements in Istanbul as an exemplary
‘urban innovation,’ stood out for
demonstrating an efficient practice of democratic
resource management. The largest industrial
city in Rio Grande do Sul with 1.3 million
inhabitants, Porto Alegre has a local economy
worth over US$ 7 billion, and for long has
had a reputation for hosting a progressive
civil society led by intellectuals and labor
unions experienced in mobilizing people to
partake in public life, including opposing
authoritarianism. |
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