Participatory budgeting challenges local development in Cuba

Authors

  • Oscar Echavarría Universidad de Oriente

Abstract

To achieve that the Cuban municipalities have certain financial autonomy for their own development and to link from an active way to the citizens in the municipal budgetary procedure is a latent necessity that commits the new economic model's effectiveness that the country has been projected. Aided in The Law 113 of the 2012 you began to apply the territorial contribution for the local development to such effects the Cuban municipalities they have a budget to be able to sustain a politics of local development; but contradictorily the mechanisms have not appeared to involve all the citizens in the approval, execution and control of the treasury and of the rest of the public resources. In this sense the present work proposes a procedure to give participation to the different actors of the Cuban society in the approval execution and control of the municipal public funds. Theoretically the proposal is based in the well-known pattern as Participative Budget of I Behave Cheerful, although its practical implementation responds appropriately to the Cuban reality.

Keywords:

Decentralization, local development, participative budget, citizen participation