Luanda - The Angolan Institute of Electoral Systems and Democracy (IASED) plans to hold 89 listening sessions on Participatory Budgeting in the same number of municipalities in the country's 18 provinces this year, its executive director, Luís Jimbo said today.
In an interview with Angop, the official explained that as part of the collection of contributions from citizens, IASED will hold 89 consultation sessions, 89 reprioritization sessions with the Consultation and Consultation Councils, 89 accountability forums and 89 lectures, in a total of 356 activities.
Luís Jimbo said that the goal is to listen to more than 8,000 citizens in 89 municipalities, mostly women and young people, as a way to collect the proposals for initiatives from these fringes and increase the public confidence of citizens, who will participate directly in the solution of local problems.
'During the various meetings, we will pass on messages about the methodology for mobilizing citizens and target groups of women and young people at rural level to participate in the collection of contribution for the management and logistical organization, typical of non-governmental organizations hired as facilitators by the Ministry of Territorial Administration (MAT)', he described.
With this, underlined the executive director of IASED, it is intended to increase citizenship and participatory democracy between Local Administration authorities and citizens, ensuring the modality of other forms of citizen participation within the scope of local government with the institutionalization of municipalities in the near future.
Luís Jimbo attested that it is important for communities to participate in the Local Government Budget, as he defends the inclusion of the interests and priorities of citizens in the expenses of the General State Budget/2025, especially the issues that most affect families, related to health, education and access to water and energy.
As for the Facilitator, he informed that he is a citizen citizen, member of one of the 56 NGOs associated with the national network of organizations coordinated by IASED that includes the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace, the social programs of IAECA, CICA and organizations associated with the Angolan Electoral Observatory at the level of the 18 provinces.
Regarding this theme, IASED held, last week, the National Methodological Meeting on Participatory Budgeting, to prepare the local facilitators who will hold the Municipal Forums for the Collection of Contributions for the Preparation of the Budget of Municipal Administrations and the Municipal Forum for Accountability.
Earlier, on the eighth (8th) of that same month of July, the Minister of Territorial Administration (MAT), Dionísio da Fonseca, opened, in the municipality of Ambriz, in the province of Bengo, the Forum for the Collection of Contributions from Municipalities for the 2025 Budget. MDS/DOJ
