Planning from Below. Marta Harnecker
of aspirations
■ Second moment: to approve the priorities
■ Third moment -- to approve the different plans
f) Invitees
2) Planning Council
a) Guiding entity
b) Tasks of the Planning Council
c) Councilors
d) Election of councilors
e) Councilors tasks
f) Duration of terms
g) Permanent invitees to Councils
h) Practical aspects of the functioning of the Councils
1). Working Groups and Working Teams
2) Group of Community Activists
APPENDIX I. LEVELS OF DECENTRALIZATION AND COMPETENCIES
APPENDIX II. SYSTEM OF PARTICIPATION FLOW CHART
APPENDIX V. CONSOLIDATING COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
1. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND WORK AREAS
1) Thematic areas and working groups
a) Popular Economy and Endogenous Development
b) Education and Sports
c) Full Social Development
d) Housing, Infrastructure and Habitat
e) Culture
f) Communication and Information
g) Security and Defense
2) Taking natural inclinations into consideration when assuming tasks
2. COMMUNITY COUNCIL
1. Definition, function, principles and members’ profile
a) What is a Community Council?
b) Who makes up the council?
c) Allow for flexibility when setting up the council
d). Its functions
e) Principles that should guide its actions
f) Members’ profile
3. STRUCTURE OF THE COUNCIL
1) Executive
a) Functions
b) Composition
c) Spokespeople and not representatives
2) Financial management Unit
3) Social Oversight Unit
4. ELECTION OF COUNCIL MEMBERS
1) Elections for the Executive
a) Who can be a spokesperson?
b) Spokespeople proposed by Working Groups
c) Spokespeople proposed directly in the Citizen’s Assembly
2) Election to the Financial Management Unit
3) Election to the Social Oversight Unit
5. CITIZEN’S ASSEMBLY: THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY
1) Quorum4
2) Functions of the Citizen’s Assembly
1) Information that Could be included in the database
a) Cartographic data
b) Number and characteristics of residents
c) Evolution of the population
d) Existing structures
e) Infrastructure
f) Economic activities and potentialities
g) State of the environment
h) Forms of worker organization
i) Social and human potential
j) Socio-cultural traditions and activities
k) Situation of women
l) Situation of youth
m) Organized communities in each territorial area and their level of quality
n) Existing sector-based organizations or interest groups
o) Problems that exist in the community
p) Problems that transcend the local community
q) External benefits that are received
r) Solidarity-based initiatives
s) History
t) Legal framework
2) Consolidation of data into a single document
CHAPTER II. DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAY OF THE LAND
1. ASPIRATIONS AND MOTIVATING QUESTIONS
2. METHODOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITIES (FIRST STEP)
3. METHODOLOGY FOR COLLATING ASPIRATIONS IN TERRITORIAL AREAS AND THE MUNICIPALITY
CHAPTER IV. DEFINING PRIORITIES (SECOND STEP)
1. METHODOLOGY FOR COMMUNITIES
2. METHODOLOGY FOR TERRITORIAL AREAS AND MUNICIPALITY
CHAPTER V. METHODOLOGY FOR EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION