Dominican Republic

total of pb processes

127 - 335

local government

127 - 335

regional, state
and national governments

other type of institution

large cities

capital cities

Legislation regarding the regulation of Participatory Budgeting experiences
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Law 170 07, Law 176 07, Constitution of 2015, art 206.

Outstanding innovation
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The Municipal Participatory Budgeting is integrated in the Municipal Public Administration System (SISMAP MUNICIPAL) with indicator 7, which evaluates the fulfillment of the three stages in which the process is structured in the Dominican Republic according to the legal framework that supports it. This is an online monitoring system based on the availability of evidence generated by the Municipal Participatory Budgeting, a score is assigned to each evidence according to a sub-indicator and a trimestral report is made, which is reflected in a ranking
where another seven indicators are measured. The system can be accessed at www.sismap.gob.do.

Principal tendencies detected
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In our country an initiative is being developed in order to encourage the participation of children and young people (from 5 to 16 years old) called “Youth Council”. This model of participation is carried out under the protection of the town councils. Nowadays, there are about 20 youth councils in the same number of municipalities. One of its aims is the active participation in the Municipal Participatory Budgeting processes as an agent of promotion as well as proposal managers, along
with other social organizations.

OTHER INFORMATION
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In the Dominican case the Municipal Participatory Budgeting has the particularity of being protected as a right in the constitution, which offers a great opportunity for its implementation. However, despite this level of legality there are still resistance on behalf of the political leadership on the one hand, and a low level of commitment from the citizens in order to pressure its compliance, mainly this is linked to the lack of consequences regarding this matter. It should be noted that the institution in charge of the process in the Dominican Republic since its beginning is the Dominican Federation of Municipalities (FEDOMU) which has a teamof facilitators distributed in the ten regions, that provides technical assistance to the one hundred and fifty-eight
municipalities. The federation manages and provides resources for the sustainability of the process on an ongoing basis and is also responsible for the control and monitoring of this indicator in the SISMAP MUNICIPAL.

C O M M U N I T Y

capital

Santo Domingo

population

10 627 170

language

Spanish

currency

Peso

P O S I T I O N O N I N D E X E S

DEMOCRACY

61
FLAWED DEMOCRACY

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

94
HIGH

CORRUPTION PERCEPTION

129/180

WORLD HAPPINESS

77/156