1. Panel: Fiscal Transparency Portals and Citizen Participation
Julio 2015

2. Fiscal Transparency & Citizen Participation
Fiscal transparency portals = Enablers
¿Participation? ¿What does this mean?

3. Citizen Participation:
Type of audience and government activities to engagement
Citizen Participation:
General Public
Observing Public
Directly Affected Public
Stakeholders
Government Activities:
Inform Consult Involve Collaborate

4. Mexico’s Transparency Portal
Type of engagement
Type of information
Activity
Type of Public
Access to Information:
Publication Format
Sub-national public investment information 
Citizen participation exercise
(Involve)
Observing
Citizen’s Budget
Citizen budget consultation
(Consult and involve)
General
Budget Cycle : Monitoring
Performance Evaluation
Indicators Consultation
Budget Cycle:
Accountability
Sub-national public investment information and infrastructure
Rally
(Inform)
¿Why not ALL public at ALL times?

5. The Education Infrastructure Portal
But yes, everyone in the budget cycle:
Ministries of Finance are not the only actor!

6. Access to Information: Publication Format
Citizen participation exercise: Subnational governments spending
13 civil society participants
Live and remotely
Results:
Signed commitments for better visualization and furthering openness of data
Citizen’s budget
consultation:
1,145 participants
Online and #OnTheStreet
Results:
Infographics
Newsletter
Information spending by institution

7. Budget Cycle : Monitoring and Accountability
Indicators Consultation:
1,839 visits
210 responses
Online only
Highly technical
Rally #32EstadosConectados
#OpenDataDay
27 public infrastructure citizen verification visits
Participation all over the country
Results:
Broader citizen engagement (two types of public)
Verification of the information by the monitoring authorities
Results:
People’s observations are been taken into account for broadest improvement of performance indicators undertaken in the administration.

8. #DatosEnLaCalle

9. Have fun! Remember... Effective Access to Information Right Fiscal
Citizen participation
Citizen engagement
Fiscal
Transparency
Portals
Learn by doing Don’t be afraid!
Listen and answer
Have fun! ≠