Yeongdeungpo-gu, Cooperative Governance Project Contest

Accepting Public-Private Partnership Project Proposals Until the 31st... All Residents Eligible to Participate... 'Visiting Governance Consultation Office' Available for Residents with Online Submission Difficulties

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Yeongdeungpo-gu (District Mayor Chae Hyun-il) is operating a cooperative governance project agenda proposal window until the 31st of this month to solve local issues through communication between residents and administration.

The cooperative governance project is a project where residents and administration collaborate to solve local problems. Residents directly participate in all stages including agenda proposal, project selection process, progress, and evaluation.

Agenda proposals for the cooperative governance project are accepted online until March 31. The opportunity to participate is open to any Yeongdeungpo-gu residents or institutions and organizations within Yeongdeungpo-gu.

The district operates telephone counseling and a visiting cooperative governance counseling center for residents who have difficulty with online submissions. The purpose is to ensure that no resident is excluded from participation.

This cooperative governance project discovery has been conducted annually since 2017 by collecting residents' opinions. Last year, a total of seven agendas were selected, and currently, working groups for each project have been formed, with both private and administrative sectors jointly promoting the projects.

For the agendas proposed in this contest, public and private sectors will jointly review them to secure feasibility and reliability, and plan to select 30 major agendas.

The district will share the selected 30 agendas with residents and conduct a resident consensus vote. For the top 10 agendas with the highest votes, a joint public-private agenda research group will be formed to concretize the projects through various deliberation processes.

In June, the district will hold an "Open Forum" to share the progress so far and collectively empathize with the 10 derived agendas. At this event, the 2022 Community Innovation Plan cooperative governance projects will be selected, and after approval by the Yeongdeungpo-gu Cooperative Governance Council, the final projects will be confirmed.

Chae Hyun-il, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, stated, "I hope that agenda proposals will discover issues that residents can empathize with," and added, "We will revitalize public-private cooperative governance, which is the driving force to solve long-standing local community challenges, and create an open Yeongdeungpo based on communication and cooperation to realize democracy."

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