Daejeon Selects 30 Community Villages... Budget Support for Village Problem Solving

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City will select about 30 community groups this year and provide budgets to enable each village to solve the problems they face on their own.

The city announced on the 13th that it will promote the "2020 Community Village Planning Project," which is based on this concept.

The project aims to realize residents' autonomy and village democracy by enabling residents to solve each village's problems themselves through agenda discovery and investigation, plan establishment, village general meetings, execution, and evaluation.

The city plans to announce the project from the 10th to the 28th of this month, hold project briefings and consultations, and select about 30 community groups from each neighborhood to participate in the project.

Selected communities will receive a project budget of 4 million KRW necessary for village plan establishment, support from one support team member and one planner, and consulting for each neighborhood.

In particular, selected agendas will receive 33 million KRW per neighborhood for follow-up project execution, and after evaluation, small-scale community support projects within 10 million KRW can also be promoted. The related budget will be executed from 1 billion KRW secured through the resident participation budget system.

Applicants must be community councils composed of more than 20 residents wishing to establish a village plan. They can download the application form from the Daejeon Social Capital Support Center website, fill it out, and submit it.

Meanwhile, last year, 18 neighborhoods were selected for the project, achieving results such as the participation of about 9,000 residents and the discovery of over 200 agendas.

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