24/3 lecture "Citizens' Participation
Transnational Institute - 18.03.2006 09:43
Transnational Institute invites you to the lecture
"Citizens' Participation at the Crossroads in Porto Alegre, Brazil"
Speaker: Sergio Baierle - Centre for Urban Studies (CIDADE)
Transnational Institute invites you to the lecture
"Citizens' Participation at the Crossroads in Porto Alegre, Brazil"
Speaker: Sergio Baierle - Centre for Urban Studies (CIDADE)
Date: Friday, 24 March 2006 at 5.00 pm
Venue: Transnational Institute, de Wittenstraat 25, Amsterdam
The city of Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, has been the subject
of multiple articles, books, TV documentaries and postgraduate
dissertations, focused on the acclaimed system of participatory
budgeting jointly run by the local government and civil society
organisations. This experience was portrayed as a new model for
efficient, democratic and truly participatory municipal governance,
with attempts to replicate the alleged success of the Brazilian case
in hundreds of other cities across the Americas and Europe.
In the municipal elections of October 2004, the left-wing coalition
that had run the city since 1988, led by the Workers’ Party (PT),
was defeated.
The incoming government, comprised by a heterogeneous mix of
conservative and populist parties, committed itself to maintain
landmark policies implemented by the previous administration.
At the same time, the government introduced a new institutional scheme called ‘local solidary governance’, which has received both support
and criticism from academic analysts, political leaders, social movements
and international organisations such as the World Bank and the European
Commission. Sergio Baierle will address the prospects of municipal
governance in Porto Alegre in the new political context and suggest
possible lessons for participatory urban planning and management
in other cities of the South.
For more information contact:
Gemma Galdon
or
Andrea Sturkenboom
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