PB Support Mechanisms

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PB Support Mechanisms

• Poverty Mapping
• Training of Facilitators

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Some mechanisms that facilitate the
implementation of the participatory budgeting
process
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A methodology forFacilitators-or moderators

• Role To promote public and vulnerable groups
  participation in the local budgeting process
• Tasks Awareness raising
• Dissemination
• Information
• Communication
• Organise meeting
• Discussion facilitation
• Mediation

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A methodology How to design a poverty map?

• Role to identify social economic gaps and
  disparities between different areas in communes
  and municipality
• Tasks
• Inform the actors
• Identify the problems to be addressed
• Design questionnaires
• Identify whom to interview
• Collect data
• Analyse and draw conclusions
• Present and disseminate results

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A methodologyHow to evaluate the process?

• Role How to evaluate/assess the participatory
  budgeting process
• Tasks
• Which indicators to test
• Identification of questions to be answered
• Review of all the documentation and data produced
  during the process
• Who will be involved
• Data collection
• Analysis and conclusions
• Prepare the results
• Dissemination publication of the results

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How can we produce a poverty map

• Social economic data (administrative) and
  infrastructure
• Amount of land per capita
• Arable land quality
• Number of livestock per capita
• Number of employed people
• Number of pensioners
• Number of disabled people
• Number of health centers
• Ratio of medical personnel per inhabitants
• Number of schools

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How can we produce a poverty map ..continuing

• Social economic data (administrative) and
  infrastructure
• Physical condition of schools
• Number of families without potable water inside
  their house
• Number of students per teacher
• Number of students in a class
• Number of children who abandoned schools
• Distance of school from the students
• Infant mortality
• Maternal mortality
• Physical conditions of roads

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Data from Living Standard Measurement Survey

• Access to potable water
• Living space per person inside the house
• Environment cleanness (Sewage garbage)
• Electric Power Supply

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Kashari- general data

• Population- 17120 inhabitants
• 4610 families
• Average family size - 4 members
• 20 of the families owns 500-1000 m² per capita
• Yrshek dhe Mezez- Urban Centres
• Yzberisht- problems with the new residents
• A great number of businesses operate in the
  commune territory generating significant income
  for the commune.

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Kashari-Employment and income

• 220 small businesses
• 80 large businesses
• 200 employed in the state sector
• 180 employed in the private sector
• Less than 10 of the population benefit from the
  social assistance scheme

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Number of families receiving social assistance by
areas in Kashar Commune
 
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Other Living Standard Measurement Survey Data

• 1/3 of the households spend 2 hours a day for
  water supply
• 2/3 declare the amount of water they use is
  insufficient

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Access to potable water
 
 
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Poverty map

• Basic indicators
• Number of families in social assistance scheme
• Health personnel per person
• Number of students in a class

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How to evaluate the process and use the lessons
learned in the future

• First step Identify what to evaluate.
• Second step Identify the instruments to be used
  
• Third step Construct the questionnaire
• First step Collect the data
• Fifth step Process data and draw conclusions
• Sixth step Disseminate results

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First step What to evaluate

1. Getting information about the participants in the
   process
2. Assess information and awareness of the community
   about the participatory process
3. Evaluate the level of participation of the
   community
4. Evaluate the activity of the citizens
   representatives in the budgeting committee

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Constructed 3 questionnaires

• Individual questionnaire
• Focus group questionnaire for the commune
  administration officials
• Focus group questionnaire for facilitators

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Results

• General data
• Number of interviewed persons 150
• Of which
• 95 men and 5 women
• Age group
• Vulnerable group
• Education attainment level

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Results

• Information and awarenes
• Question Are you informed about the
  participatory budgeting process?
• Answer Yes 72 No 26 Do not know 2
• Question Which has been the source of
  information?
• Answer Commune 33, Posters 21 Friends 17,
  in the cafe-bar 21 , relatives 8
• Question Which according to you would have been
  the best way to get the information?
• Answer Posters in public places 42, personal
  information in the house 27

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Results

• participation in the process
• Question How do you estimate your participation
  in the participatory budgeting meetings?
• Answer valuable 58, somehow valuable 30,
  waste of time 2, do not know 10
• Question What do you expect to benefit from
  your participation?
• Answer Have access in decision making 41, get
  more information 33, will have an impact in the
  quality of life 19, I am not sure 7

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Results

• Evalaution of the Participatory Budgeting
  Committee is under way

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Results

• Evaluation of the facilitator/moderators role
• Questions How do you estimate your training as
  facilitators?
• Answer we had sufficient information 90, we
  would need more information about local budgeting
  process 30, need more knowledge about
  prioritisation 60.
• Questions What knowledge beside the training
  you received will be of help in your role as a
  facilitator?
• Answer training in communication 10 more
  knowledge in facilitation 30, assistance in
  practical implementation of their role 60

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Results

• Evaluation of the facilitator/moderators role
• Question What is the most important role you
  play in the process ?
• Answer Disseminate information 40, facilitate
  meetings 70, facilitation of the process 65,
  facilitate priority meeting 50, increase the
  participation of the community in the PB process
  60

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Results

• Focus Groups with local administration officials
• Question Why did you decide to implement the
  participatory budgeting process in your commune/
  municipality?
• Answer
• Because we have problems in budget allocation
• Increases administration transparency
• Increase the trust of the community in the
  administration
• Increases the community support for commune
  projects
• Increases the community capacity

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Results

• Question What to your opinion could endanger
  the Participatory Budgeting process?
• Answer
• Lack of financial resources
• Lack of interest from the community
• Lack of capacities
• Conflict during the debates