What room for manoeuvre do we as citizens have to intervene
in the management and direction of our city's public policies?

Formal guarantees for citizen involvement in the management of the public sector include, among other things, the drafting regulations for citizen participation. These regulations are the documents that ensure the channels, channels and tools to bring the demands of the population to the institution and to hold the institution accountable to the citizens.

Citizen participation regulations are the instruments responsible for generating the social structures necessary to guarantee the political and social rights of the people who live in cities. They facilitate dialogue between the social fabric and the institution, promoting citizenship to be agent of its own change.

But the construction of a participation regulation should not be a unilateral exercise on the part of governments; for it to be an effective participation mechanism, it must include as many voices as possible in its drafting: In this process, people intervene in the construction of the document that will regulate their position in the management of public affairs. In other words: citizenship must participate to build your participation tools.

For there to be a real transformation of cities, it has to come from the grassroots: the voices of the street must be the protagonists, working from participatory, inclusive and democratic management models, taking an active part in social change and transformation.