Holding the event “I am the mayor” is a concrete example of people’s participation in the city administration

According to the report of Fars News Agency’s Shahri Group, Amir Shahrabi, the general manager of the budget program of Tehran Municipality, in the specialized meeting of managers’ experiences in the matter of participation, which was held at the House of Humanities Thinkers; He stated: In the development of today’s cities, if we want to respond to the needs, we must define and plan the wise management of cities based on the informed participation of citizens. The presence of citizens in the field of decision-making and their closeness with officials and experts and achieving their wishes and needs as quickly as possible is possible through the process of people’s participation in the city administration.

He considered the example of people’s participation in governance to be explained in social, economic, cultural and political issues and added: Fortunately, the forty-five-year experience of the Islamic Revolution is one of the honors of the holy system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the practical field of people’s participation in various social fields. It has provided political, scientific, etc., and urban management has also brought significant experiences to the fore.

Director General of Planning and Budgeting of Tehran Municipality, referring to the first event of “I am the Mayor” stated: “I am the Mayor” plan, which was implemented for the first time in 1401 in Tehran Municipality, was the beginning of the effort to realize the participatory budgeting system and as one of the big projects of the municipality. It should continue this year as well.

He, among the features of the implementation of the event “I am the mayor” in Tehran Municipality, is the implementation of the plan using modern technologies, the maximum use of the specialized and technical capabilities of the Tehran Municipality, the use of levels of intra-organizational participation in the implementation of the plan (including the personnel of the 22 regions 123 district personnel, neighborhood managers and neighborhood staff), the use of questioning public volunteers (waste trainers, sports volunteers of the sports organization, durability groups of the crisis management organization and fruit and vegetable fields and firemen volunteers), increasing the interaction of urban management decision makers With the citizens and popularization of the city administration pointed out.

Shahrabi named software and spiritual transformation (model citizen), organizing people’s participation, especially the elites’ participation in the city administration, and the responsibility and participation of citizens in the city administration as the approaches of the mayor of Tehran and said: In the first step of uploading the projects of the I am the mayor plan, some Because the priorities of the mayor of Tehran in the form of municipal mega-projects, service appointments, suggestions of citizens in the 137+ system and monitoring plan were taken into consideration.

He listed the survey platforms as electronic and field and added: In addition to the web-based system, I am the mayor of potentials such as human resources within the organization, volunteer groups, environmental and media information, public capacities such as mosques, community centers and any Public gatherings were used to survey and receive citizens’ opinions.

Shahrabi, transformation in Tehran’s urban planning system, fundamental attention to the legal approaches of the necessity of people’s participation, strengthening the sense of belonging to a place and creating memories of urban events, creating the context for the realization of a model city, model citizen and model urban management, selecting and prioritizing urban projects based on people’s opinion , taking proposals for new projects and innovative ideas, increasing the legitimacy and acceptability of Tehran Municipality’s actions and moving towards the popularization of the city’s administration were among the achievements of the first day of the implementation of the “I’m the Mayor” project.

The Director General of Program and Budget of Tehran Municipality emphasized the effort to cultivate the culture of people’s participation in the city administration and noted: In 1403, in addition to sharing projects in the My Mayor system, we also received public suggestions for operational projects within a period of one month. We receive.

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