Monitoring: Experience at the Municipality of Guatemala

1. Monitoring: Experience at the Municipality of Guatemala Juan Roberto Brenes Municipality of Guatemala

2. Success of a company's community investment • -The Conditions of Liberty defined by the Public Good-The Solidarity and Subsidiarity Principlesin Political Theory-Preserve the Public Space (the local government job as butlerII. Evaluation by the stakeholdersIII. Main characteristics of the process IV. Local government: Community development and monitoring

3. I. Success of a company's community investment • Solidarity in public spaces is only for political authority (private property is known by all). • Solidarity for privates only in private spaces. (Otherwise there will be competition for notoriety and not cooperation = mutual attacks and erosion of public opinion).

4. I. Success of a company's community investment… • Let political authority do its job: finance % budget. • Subsidiarity should be independent from political authority (stimulus to private productivity; individual competition). • E.g., scholarships to employee's children upon merit (give a sense of justice).

5. -The Conditions of Liberty defined by the Public Good • “The public space belongs to everybody.” • In the public sphere power is executed by the political authority and is limited by “public opinion.” • The convergence of political authority and private domination occurs in the public space (negative externalities). • The public domainis thenecesary condition for exchange (wealth creation). • The public domain is the limit of public authority and private domination (it embodies the founding condition of every exchange: repetition). • The existence of this public space is a guarantee of our personal and civil freedom (as a condition of possibility of exchange).

6. -The Solidarity and Subsidiarity Principlesin Political Theory • Subsidiarity: limits to the political authority through individual responsibility with these 6 conditions: graduation consensus, turns into a temporary advantage, time limit, known money amount, executed partly by locals, partly paid by locals. • Solidarity: capacity of uninterested, temporary, marginal, assistance through the political praxis (moral obligation).

7. -Preserve the Public Space (the local government job as butler) • Sense of Justice: listens, understands, plans, executes, teaches (punishes). • Justice is achieved by the preservation of the public space as the political catharsis loci.

8. II. Evaluation by the stakeholders • Relevance of Public Opinion (Involving the media). • Alignment with the community's “high priest” (traditional knowledge). • School teachers (communities acceptance) and 3 highly recognized citizens (public prestige).

9. III. Main characteristics of the process • Business model of the private companies. (Day to day Public Relations; Perspectives and inform stakeholders in advance). • Coordination with political authorities (Solidarity issues). • Independent to Public Authority (Subsidiarity though NGOs). • Monitoring should also occur in organized fori (independent NGOs) with public known political agendas.

10. IV. Local government: Community development and monitoring • Abstract, universal and general rules (sandbox). • In the public sphere power is executed by the political authority and is limited by “public opinion.” • Regulation on the How and not the What (Operation and use of the public space). • Non arbitrary coercion (Credible threat). E.g., PUM Project: Mandatory removal of up to 200 private posts).