Participatory budgeting is increasingly seen as an innovation in local government practices that promotes the principles of good local governance. It can make local government spending more transparent and stimulate citizen participation in decision-making on public resources and their mobilisation. It can also improve local government tax revenues and redirect investment towards basic infrastructure for disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Finally, it contributes to the strengthening of social networks and helps to bridge the differences between elected representatives and the various components of civil society.
This training aims to strengthen the knowledge, skills and attitudes of facilitators to make them more effective in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the PB in cities and territories. The aim is to create a pool of French-speaking African skills capable of supporting local authorities in drawing up their budgets according to a governance approach centred on the needs of citizens and a transparent management ethic. As a result, some twenty Senegalese advisors and facilitators will be trained in the concepts, principles and methods of Participatory Budgeting and will be supported in drawing up an action plan to reinvestment of the knowledge acquired.