total of pb processes
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164

local government
​

164

regional, state
​and national governments

0

other type of institution

0

large cities

7

capital cities

1

Legislation regarding the regulation of Participatory Budgeting experiences
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The law that approves the State Budget for 2019 establishes, in
article 7, the creation of Participatory Budgeting processes, as a
way to “ensure the fair distribution of wealth and national income
and the participation of citizens in the public management
sector.” Nevertheless, Participatory Budgeting experiences must
be “financed with the income allocated to specific programs
under this General State Budget law”. Additionally, Presidential
Decrees Nº 234/19 e 235/19, both of July 2019 were approved. The
first one determines the annual value of 25 million1 kwanzas
that will be allocated in each municipality as a budget for the
Participatory Budgeting initiatives. Angola has 164 municipalities.
Hence, the total amount of the State Budget designated to
municipal Participatory Budgeting is 4.100 million kwanzas2
. The second institutionalized the “Participatory Budgeting at
municipal level” and defines the respective rules and functioning
to all the municipalities and other similar administrative entities.​

Outstanding innovation
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The Angolan case represents an innovation in the international
framework since it’s the first country to create a national
legislation that compels the implementation of PB processes
in all municipalities and other similar administrative entities,
without ever having experienced this kind of initiatives before.
The Angolan Government is currently developing all conditions
and settings in order to hold the local elections before the
general elections of 2022. Thus, the Participatory Budgeting
emerges in a current framework of decentralization in the
country, as well as the strengthening of democracy itself.​

C O M M U N I T Y

capital

Luanda

population

30 809 760

language

Portuguese

currency

Kwanza

P O S I T I O N   O N   I N D E X E S

DEMOCRACY

123
AUTHORITARIAN

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

147
MEDIUM

CORRUPTION PERCEPTION

165/180

WORLD HAPPINESS

N/D