ODDC Networking Meeting – April 2013, London

Caring for my neighborhood Project

Citizen engagement on the public budget

ODDC Networking Meeting – April 2013, London

Context – legal mark

2000 - Brazil improves accountability and transparency with Fiscal Responsibility Law

complemented in 2009 by the (Fiscal) Transparency Law .

This law forces all public entities to web publish detailed budget data in real time

ODDC Networking Meeting – April 2013, London

Context – legal mark Fiscal Transparency Law defines the following

deadlines for its compliance:

2010 Federal Government, states and municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants

2011 Municipalities that have between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants

2013 Municipalities with up to 50,000 inhabitants

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Context – how many cities

283 Brazilian municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants – deadline expired in 2010

324 Municipalities that have between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants – deadline expired in 2011

4958 Municipalities with up to 50,000 inhabitants – deadline will expire in 28th May!

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What is the idea ?

• We have chosen the biggest city in Brazil, São Paulo, which has around 10.8 million people.

• It has 38 bi Brazilian Reais (around 19 bi USD) public budget

• The idea is to put individual expenses on the city map

• Give the people the opportunity to know a little more about budget theme linking it to their everyday life

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Why?

• Citizen empowerment

• Fiscal Transparency

• Fight agaisnt corruption

• Efficiency

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First step – the tool

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What do data has told us ?

• R$35 billions 2011 budget has 3,029 individual expenditures

• 56% of them has elements for geolocation

44%56%

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Great! But...Most resources go to expenditures without

geolocation elements

Enacted Values Allocated Values Settled ValuesExpend. without geolocation elements Expend. with geolocation elements

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Second step – the people

We have chosen acting in a bottom-up way.• We are running a pilot project in some São

Paulo East side communities• There are many districts which sum up to 3

million people• Poverty concentration and lack of urban

facilities

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How ?

• Around 100 local leaders and citizens will use the tool in a sistematic way

• We have a very important partner, Our São Paulo Network, which is almost 600 social movements network in São Paulo City.

• We expect to contribute with them by giving elements in order to ask for better information

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Future steps

São Paulo Municipal executive power become aware of this project and we hope to sign a technical cooperation agreement in the next month • Work for better data quality• Official Caring for my Neighbourhood version?

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Comments, suggestions?

Thank you!

giselesc@usp.br

www.gpopai.usp.br/cuidando