The Council of Tenerife promotes the citizen participation in the 17 municipalities of the Island that have less than 20,000 inhabitants. The insular area of Citizen Participation and Diversity allocates 200,000 euros for this, the same amount as last year, as aid to finance projects and actions to encourage the involvement of the population. These municipalities will be able to apply for the island subsidy until the next 17th.
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, assured THE DAY that “this line of aid for this year 2023 represents the continuity of what we have promoted since the beginning of this mandate, with the focus of attention on the nuclei with a population of less than 20,000 inhabitants.
Close to the citizenry
Gugliotta explained that “the city councils are the institutions that best know, due to their proximity, what the https://www.eldia.es/ are and, for this reason, this type of aid is so necessary and that the responsible people in the municipalities establish the priorities to be specified in each one of them”. The island councilor points out: “The objective is to collaborate with the municipalities in policies and actions that encourage neighborhood participation in the community environment, in activities that contribute to enriching local life and arouse their interest.”
For the development of the subsidized actions, an execution period of one year has been set, which covers from June 2023 to June 2024. There are three criteria to apply in the economic distribution. Thus, it is provided that 35% of the amount to be granted, 70,000 euros, be distributed linearly among all the municipalities that request the subsidy and meet the conditions required in the bases. Your goal is guarantee a minimum, sufficient and equal distribution for all beneficiary municipalities.
The second criterion is population. The distribution of 15%, 30,000 euros, is contemplated proportionally to the inhabitants in order to obtain a supplement to the financing of the projects based on the potential number of beneficiaries.
As a novelty, this year’s call includes a third criterion in which a series of preferred targets. A distribution of 50%, 100,000 euros, is collected among all the projects that are aimed at achieving one of the following objectives: mainstreaming citizen participation; develop a participation plan; develop or update a regulation in this area; create structures for citizen, child and adolescent participation, as well as a municipal network of associations, and, finally, design and implement processes for participatory budgets.
It will be the city councils themselves that will indicate the preferential criteria to which the actions they present respond. Another novelty is that the project can be presented after the provisional resolution proposal – it is a condition to obtain the subsidy, having a period of 10 business days for it. This is an advantage, since itIn this way, they will discover what money they have to develop their initiatives.
Comprehensive Assistance Office
He Council of Tenerife During this mandate, it has shown a special sensitivity towards the smaller municipalities of the Island. It is the purpose of consolidating the Comprehensive Assistance Office aimed, preferentially, at those with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.
The Island Plenary, in an extraordinary session held on March 1, 2021, approved andl Regulation of Comprehensive Assistance to Municipalities. This document includes the possibility of receiving the support of the insular institution at the legal, economic, technical and administrative levels
Legal assistance consists of advice and representation and defense in a trial. Likewise, the exercise of the necessary public functions in the different municipalities is made possible.
The 31 municipalities of Tenerife They can be beneficiaries of assistance based on criteria such as population and the economic and management capacity of the council that requests it.
The municipalities of Buenavista del Norte, Arafo, Arico, Garachico, Fasnia, La Guancha, La Matanza, El Rosario, San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Úrsula, Santiago del TeideLos Silos, El Tanque, El Sauzal, Tegueste, La Victoria and Vilaflor.
A total of 129,419 of the 931,646 inhabitants of the Island of Tenerife (2022 data) are potential beneficiaries of this citizen participation project. They are those people who reside in one of the 17 municipalities with less than 20,000 registered residents.
Almost 130,000 potential participants
From El Rosario (17,750), Santa Úrsula (15,361), Tegueste (11,359) or Santiago del Teide (11,162), the most populated, to those on the other side of the demographic spectrum; that is, those with fewer inhabitants in their respective censuses. This is the case of Vilaflor de Chasna (1,767), El Tanque (2,813), Fasnia (2,849), Los Silos (4,644), Buenavista del Norte (4,753), San Juan de la Rambla (4,864) and Garachico (4,920).
