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www.ecoBUDGET.com
ecoBUDGET-Partnership Launch
at the ICLEI World Congress 2009, Edmonton, Canada
The full cost of municipal action
Municipal activitiesalso require
natural resources
Ongoing challenge:how to provide services to
citizens withlimited resources?
Note: municipal action always has both a monetary
and an environmental cost.
Municipal servicesrequire
financial resources
Managing Expenditure Through a Budget
Municipal decisionmakers determine the financial health of the
local authority
Note: Local government leaders bear responsibility for all resources (i.e.
both monetary and natural), for debt, for property, for assets management
Financialbudgeting systemsroutinely applied
As we can manage our artificial resource - money - in terms of a budget, why shouldn’t we do the same with natural resources?
Konrad Otto-Zimmermann Secretary General, ICLEI
How do municipaldecision makers manage
monetary resources?
ecoBUDGET: Towards an Integrated Managementof all Municipal Resources
We all know that there is a massive destruction of our environment. Our forest cover is thinning and we are experiencing scarcity of some natural resources. Knowing that it can help us protect the environment, I welcome ecoBudget even if it was my political opponent who started its implementation.
Luna Piezas, Lord Mayor, Tubigon, Philippines
Municipal territory,all effects of services, all
resources, all stakeholders
Keep environmentalspending within the
limits set
Manage natural resourcesas efficiently as
financial resources
Designed withand for
local governments
MirrorsFinancial
budgeting
Plan, control, monitor,report on, and evaluate
Why manage environmental resourcesthrough a budget?
Better informeddecision-makingBenchmarks
Accountability
Priorities
Integrated, effectiveand efficient
Control over impacts Unwavering attention
Feed-back loop
Steering the sustainabilityperformance
Reduction in urban poverty, resource friendly development, good governance and enhanced administrative and management performance capacity are some of the basic elements of this (ecoBudget) process.
Mr. Kanna LakshminarayanaHon’ble Minister of Transport for Andhra Pradesh, India
6 Good Reasons for ecoBudgeting
1stAdvantage: Mayors and CEOs
become trueresource managers
2ndAdvantage: Implementing
the UN Millennium Development Goals
4thAdvantage: Unwavering
attention to natureand environment
is sustained
5thAdvantage: Improved financial
credibility
6thAdvantage: Local Capacity Development
3rdAdvantage: Environmental resources are managed in an integrated way
The Phases of the ecoBUDGET
1. Budget planning and approval
Administrative organisation
Preliminary Report
Master Budget
Prioritised natural resources
Strategic long-term targets
Operational short-term targets
Council resolution
Budget becomes an integral andcompulsory aspect ofdecision-making
How does an ecoBUDGET look like?
2. Budget implementation
Conscious planning
Management ofmeasures & projects
Account for each indicator
Regularly and frequentlymonitoring
Up-to-date bookkeeping
Interim reporting
Corrective measures
Budget supplements
Example of monitoring and accounting worksheet
3. Budget balancing
Municipality’s environmental performance of policies
Degree of accomplishing short-and long-term targets
Results fed back to the politicaldecision-maker
Budget Balance and report
Environmental Assets takes stock
Sustainability Analysis presentsdegree of resource efficiency
Council ratification
Accountability transferred
None of these things (improvement in water quality testing and water quantity) were thought of until this concept of looking at the natural resources, their planning, budgeting a master budget, an implementable budget, a practical budget, a workable budget came in. All these things are spin offs of what I would say the concept that we need to budget our natural resources.
Mr. S. Jain, Commissioner, Guntur, India
ecoBUDGET in practice
Tubigon, Philippines: Implementing the Millenium Development Goals –
Environment and Poverty (MDG)
Guntur, India: Air Quality Improvement supports Local
Economy
Växjö, Sweden:Becoming Fossil
Fuel Free
Bologna, Italy: Sustainable City Development Respects
Resource Scarcety
Responding to the climatechange challenge
Rapidly changingframework conditions
Realizisation at local level
Re-focus on strategic environmental aspects,all resources, the whole
territory area, all relevant stakeholders
Cyclic management approach more
favourable option
Interconnectivity of issue
Traditional long- and medium term planning not sufficient
Develop capacities for climate change response
Outstanding importance of ambitious and radical
political targets
Whole territory area, all relevant stakeholders
Eco-Budgeting is Participatory Budgeting
Improved local environmental
governance through ecoBudget
Cycle ideal platformfor ‘ownership’
Participation in setting targets, measures & projects, monitoring,
evaluation
Final power withmunicipal council
ParticipatoryEnvironmental
Budgeting
Support to LocalAgenda process
Partners needed for implementation
Key toAccomplishing
targets