The challenge faced by local governments Municipalidades in Peru

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• The challenge faced by local governments
  (Municipalidades) in Peru
• Social accountability as part of the answer
• Increasing social accountability the MIM
  initiative (building blocks)
• Cajamarcas MIM initiative early results
• Towards a National Program Defensoria del Pueblo
  and IFC

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THE CHALLENGE POSED BY THE MINING CANON
Significant increase in Mining Canon transfers

• Situation
• Limited investment capacity
• Lack of development vision
• Absence of public deliberation
• Low accountability
• Expectations build-up

Five main departments
How to take best advantage of the opportunity?
Capacity building
Social Accountability
Municipalidad Provincial de Cajamarca
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SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AS PART OF THE ANSWER
Increasing Social Accountability
feedback
Civic engagement
information
Development effectiveness
Improved governance
Demand for effective management
Empowerment
Citizenship
Public service delivery
Participation
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BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE MIM INITIATIVE
Express an opinion
Effect change
Know
Understand
Provide context Establish discussion spaces
Provide a voice mechanism
Reduce cost of access to information
Increase social accountability

• Events
• Workshops
• Presentations
• Printed opinions
• Opposing views
• Contests

• Collection
• Tech capacity
• Systematization
• Basic questions
• Photographs
• Graph. synthesis
• Dissemination
• Diff. audiences
• Diff. media

• Improve governance
• Better informed decisions
• More responsive local gov.
• Achieve greater impact
• Mun. investment
• Service provision

• Ratings
• Mun. Mgmt.
• Mun. Investment
• Report cards
• Selected services
• Preferences
• Publics views on large works

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CAJAMARCAS MIM EXPERIENCE
Institutional Structure
Early Outcomes
Outputs

• Events
• Workshops with Majors
• Presentations to media
• Dissemination
• Bulletins
• Flyers
• Web Page
• Call for papers (competition)
• Feedback
• Rating of Mun. Government
• Rating of Mun. Investment
• Measures of exposure, access, and understanding
  of info on MC and MI

• MIM
• Recognized by Mun. Gov.
• Positioned as the local organization
  knowledgeable of MC and MI
• Municipalities
• Users of information
• Interest in ratings
• Open to discussions
• General population
• Much greater awareness of impotance of MC
• A public discussion about how to use MC has
  started to take shape

• Initial
• UNC
• Chamber of Comerce
• Professional Assoc.
• Expanded
• 2 Private U
• Youth Assoc.
• Others

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TOWARDS A NATIONAL PROGRAM
Joint initiative of the Defensoría del Pueblo
(National Ombudsman Office) and the IFC

• Coverage
• Four new departments, 8 local governments
  (Municipalities)
• Accounting (together with Cajamarca) for 80 of
  mining canon

• Innovations
• Leading role for Cajamarca MIM
• Establishing a network of MIMs
• Greater focus on improving public service
  delivery
• Introducing an analytical meta function
• Global monitoring
• Comparisons across MIMs (competition by
  comparison)
• Lessons and good practices
• Defensoria del Pueblo makes recommendations to
  the public sector (local and national government)
  on the base of the information collected.