INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING Malaga 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st of March Centro Cívico - Avenida de los Guindos, 48 PROGRAM WEDNSDAY 28th OF MARCH 19:00h. Inaugural ceremony: Conference opening:  Encarnación Páez (Diputada del Área de Juventud, Deportes y Formación)  Félix Doblas (Alcalde de Humilladero) Round table “Participatory Democracy, a Tool for a New Institutional Policy”  Francios Houtart* (International Council of the World Social Forum)  Inés Fontiveros (Tte. Alcalde de Participación Ciudadana, Córdoba)  Luizianne Lins (Prefeita de Fortaleza, Brasil)  Antonio Zurita (Fondo Andaluz de Municipios para la Solidaridad Internacional)  Cesare Ottolini (International Alliance of Inhabitants)  Guido Milani (Assessore alla Partecipazione, Provincia di Milano) THURSDAY 29th OF MARCH 10.00 h. Workshop: “From administrative rhythms to participatory rhythms. The local civil servants’ role in participatory budgets”. Coordinated by the Participatory Budgets team of Ayuntamiento de Sevilla and the 'Escuela de Ciudadanía Solidaria de la Provincia de Málaga' (CIMAS) 11:30 h. Break 12:00 h. Continuation of the workshop 14:30 h. Lunch 16:00 h. Simultaneous workshops: o Participatory budgets, migrants and citizenship. • Chaired by Malaga’s Immigrants’ Coordinator. o Introduction to participatory methodologies. • Chaired by promoters from the participatory budgets team of Seville. o Participation in the town planning. • Chaired by Javier Encinas (UPO- UNILCO) o De-centralized cooperation and participatory budgets. • Chaired by Felipe Llamas (FAMSI) 18:30 h. Break 19:00 h. Round table: Participatory budgets on the regional level. Taking part: Daniel Chávez (Transnational Institute), Henry Falcón (Alcaldía de Barquisimeto, Venezuela), Michelangelo Secchi (Rete Nuovo Municipio, Italy), Patrick Braouezec* (President of the Conseil Général de Seine - Saint Denis), Helena Heinzen (Secretaria General de la Intendencia de Paysandú, Uruguay) and Francis Jorge (Federación Dominicana de Municipios). FRIDAY 30th OF MARCH 9:00 h. Meeting for the constitution of the working group of participatory budgeting of the FAL Network 10:00 h. “Towards new communicative forms in participatory democracy”. Simultaneous activities:  Projection of the secuences: “Pasión de Palomares” (Palomares del Río), “El Reparto” (Cabezas de San Juan) and “Ocupando ciudadanía” (Laboraforo, Sevilla)  Presentation of the web of Spanish municipalities with participatory budgets 12:00 h. Break 12:30 h. Panel of experiences: “Participatory budgets in the world. Experiences of Africa, America and Europe”  Abdoulayé Drame (Maire de Matam, Senegal), Luz Marina Vega (Alcaldía de Cotacachi, Ecuador), Daniel Tietze (Berlin – Lichtenberg Bezirksverordnetenver-sammlung, Germany), Josh Lerner (New School for Social Research, USA), Inés Fontiveros (Tte. Alcalde de Participación Ciudadana, Córdoba) and Paula Garvín (2ª Tte. Alcalde de Sevilla). Presented and moderated by Giovanni Alegretti (Centre of Social Studies of The University of Coimbra) 14:30 h. Lunch 16:00 h. Meeting of municipalities with practices on participatory budgets (team work of small and large municipalities) 18:30 h. Break 19:00 h. Escuela de Ciudadanía Solidaria de la Provincia de Málaga. One years experience. Tomás Rodríguez Villasante (President of CIMAS), Sabina Habegger (Coordinator of the Escuela de Ciudadanía Solidaria, CIMAS) and Andrés Falck, Coordinator of the International Cooperation and Human Rights Office of Diputación de Málaga. SATURDAY 31ST OF MARCH 9:30 h. Meeting of municipalities with participatory budgets practices (continuation and plenary) 12:00 h. Break 12:30 h. Conference closing Communication of the conference's works: ・ Workshops’ conclusions. ・ Municipalities meetings’ conclusions. ・ Presentation of the FAL Network Working Group. Pedro Durán (Alcalde de Campillos) and Encarnación Páez (Diputada del Área de Juventud, Deportes y Formación) are in charge of the closing of the discussions. * Francois Houtart and Patrick Braouezec are not yet confirmed Contact: afalck@malaga.es - ppsmalaga@yahoo.es - +34 952 06 92 31