Children and young people build participatory democracy in Latin American cities

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 195-218

  Cabannes, Yves ^a,b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children and young people; Local governance; Participatory budgeting

Indexed keywords

LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

EID: 33645563151     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247806063973     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. These "urban consultations" were a UNDP/UN-Habitat programme focused on strengthening municipal governance, which ended in March 2003. The UMP closed down in March 2005 because of the withdrawal of support on the part of UNDP/UN-Habitat and international donors. This was despite tremendous demand by grassroots and local governments in the region, which were overwhelmed by the management demands placed on them by decentralization and limited resources. However, part of the programme's work has carried on independently under the aegis of CIGU (the International Center for Urban Management), which continues to provide limited (due to financial constraints) support for progressive, democratic urban governance in the region. CIGU was founded in 2004, during a meeting in Quito that gathered more than 100 local governments, NGOs, grassroots and academic institutions that had been UMP partners since 1997.
2. For more information on participatory budgeting, see Cabannes, Yves (2004), "Participatory budgeting: A significant contribution to participatory democracy" Environment and Urbanization Vol 16, No 1, April, pages 27-46.
3. Augusto Sergio Soares Dutra, 11 years old, consultant of the OP Mirim.