Local Public Policies

Public policy

Definition

Series of coordinated and planned actions by a public institution designed to resolve a negative situation, which affects all or part of the local population

Aim

Achieve an objective set in the government agenda as one of its strategic components.

Carried out by

Local public institution itself or lead by it

With the participation and collaboration of other actors

Manifestation of a clear political will of the local goverment

Local Public Policies

Definition

Policies that the local governments defines and implements as an autonomous and responsible political actor

Key points

Citizen participation

Public-Private coordination and cooperation with local actors

Collaboraton with other levels of the public Administration

Greater proximity with the people

LPPs cannot be decreed by the local government

Require greater legitimacy and broad consensus in civil society and among citizens in general

Local actors direclty involved and can intervene

Requirement for success

Connect with the other local actors and obtain a high level of cooperation with them

Needing a series of actions and financial resoirces provided by various levels of the Administration

Provincial, regional or State, and municipal

Sometimes combined

LLP Process

  1. Include the issue on the local institution's government agenda
  1. Create a strategy
  1. Activate mechanisms for citizen participation and collaborating and consulting with other actors
  1. Recognise a collective and public matter that requires effective intervention from the local public administration
  1. Implementation period using systems of citizen participation, collaborating with other levels of Administration
  1. Identify a negative situation
  1. Plan the actions, set the objectives, identify the resources needed, and the specific results to be achieved and the timeframe
  1. Implement the planned actions
  1. Monitor and evaluate

Conditions and prerequisites to a good LPP

Local institution's technical capacity

Participative culture and quality of local governance

Political determination of the local government

Cooperation between local governments: methods and instruments

Traditional

Specific Project

Cover needs or improve specific aspects

Not focused on consolidating LPP or on institutional strengthening

Asymmetry between the actors

Limitations and shortcomings

Differences between specific project and public policy

Time horizon

Origin of resources

Main Objective

Managment of actions

Genesis and decision- making process

Specific Project. Decisions in financing made by the local government’s leaders without the involvement of a participative process.

Specific Project. Resolve some of the specific needs of a group of beneficiaries or cover particular need the local institution has.

Specific Project. Limited time frame (1-3 years).

Specific Project. Large proportion of external resources.

Specific Project. Delegated to operators from outside the local institution artist specifically created these additions designed to last for the duration of the project.

Public Policy. creation and lunch by local democracy, public information and participation of opposition political groups, members of adversary councils and other local stakeholders.

Public Policy. provide a sustainable response to a problem that affects the group for the general population.

Public Policy. Medium or long term.

Public Policy. Mobilizes resources mainly from the local institution itself.

Public Policy. Direct responsibility on one of the central lines of action of a Department within the local institution.