In order to encourage citizen participation and partnership in local and encouraging greater participation of citizens associated with the construction of the public, has been presented in the Auditorium of the City of San Pedro del Pinatar, the Third Conference Citizen Participation organized by the Department of Citizen Participation María José Albaladejo directs.
The mayor, at a press conference stated that the purpose of this conference is to "provide new experiences and proposals for municipal associations, also added that the conference, whose theme is" The role of associations in the life of the municipality " will be developed by organizational entities of Madrid, Albacete, Elche and Malaga to expose the projects have been carried out successfully in their municipalities. "
This year's Citizen Participation Workshops held at the Cultural Hall CajaMurcia and reduced to a single day, 20 February, from 10.00 to 18.00 local associations will have the opportunity to establish a framework that will serve to develop their own projects.
"In the morning we will have the presence of the associations that we have invited to the conference, the Volunteers Platform Malaga Association Involvement Forum Albacete, Souk Leganés Association, Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Elche, The Civic Platform San Esteban de Murcia and Carlos Rodriguez, cyber-activist and author of several social movements network, "Albanese told not to forget the afternoon program" in which we have space for participation by associations that during the call last year from San Pedro del Pinatar conducted various programs and community projects of the municipality, ADAPT Youth without Borders NGO, Club Deportivo Football Day, Red Cross Youth Association Mar Menor and Residents' Association of El Mojon associations are invited. "
The mayor, José García Ruiz has stated that his administration "believes in public participation as a sign of identity, true democracy must include participation as an element that integrates new ideas, leading proposals are not designed by experts such as political or , this conference that were suggested by the Associations of the municipality. "
García Ruiz has acknowledged that "meaningful participation exercise is not easy, it requires real will of the rulers, appropriate methodologies, planning, patience and financial means, obviously partnerships need resources to realize their projects," so we are preparing the new Call for city grants to associations that serve to open new channels of involvement in this public project because we are all involved. "
Finally, the mayor has invited participation in the conference this year has limited places to eighty, and announced that "the participatory process work has been done with the Sports City, has been selected to exhibit in Congress International Association of Educating Cities, held this year in Guadalajara, Mexico, so all I represent the government team is proud of work well done, projects that make citizenship. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar