Over the years, the citizen’s participation is an issue that has become increasingly relevant in public management. In this context, in 2011 Law No. 20.500 on Associations and Citizen Participation in Public Management was approved. The mechanisms for citizen participation established by Law No. 20.500 are declared in the General Standards of Citizen Participation (NGPC) of each Public Service. ProChile has implemented the following citizen participation mechanisms:
Citizen consultations are instances that seek to incorporate the opinion that citizen have regarding a specific government policy, plan, program or project.
It can be carried out at any time in the public policy cycle, that is, proposals of ideas in the design, implementation, evaluation and reformulation phases.
The consultations topics can be defined by public services (ex officio) or citizen (at the request of a party), and their implementation must be defined in the general norm of institutional citizen participation.
The ministries and public services can carry out their citizen consultations through: virtual opinion windows, participatory dialogues or other methodologies that they deem pertinent.
In this space, ProChile carries out the consultation virtually and invites people to incorporate their opinion into a specific program, project or institutional plan. You can then review the queries made:
