Citizen Sovereignty and Collaborative Governance in Busan ... Busan City Establishes a 3-Year Basic Plan to Revitalize Public-Private Cooperation

Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Busan City has established the ‘1st Busan City Public-Private Cooperation Activation 3-Year Basic Plan.’

The plan was prepared starting from April last year by forming a consulting advisory group and conducting surveys, joint public-private deliberations, and expert advisory meetings.

The basic plan is the first plan aimed at realizing ‘Busan, a cooperative city that actualizes citizen sovereignty.’

The plan includes contents regarding the active promotion of public-private cooperation based on citizen participation and collaboration to solve complex social issues in daily life after COVID-19.

Specifically, aiming for ‘Busan, a sustainable happy community created together by citizens and administration,’ it presents five major strategies and 20 detailed tasks: ▲ Establishing a cooperative culture ▲ Advancing a cooperative-friendly organizational foundation ▲ Strengthening citizen participation systems ▲ Building a regional cooperative model of participation and decentralization ▲ Enhancing the capabilities of cooperative actors.

For each of the five major strategies, the city has selected one core task to strategically promote with a focus on empowering citizens: ▲ (Establishing a cooperative culture) Establishing and implementing a city administration diagnosis and recommendation process ▲ (Advancing a cooperative-friendly organizational foundation) Advancing the resident participatory budgeting system based on public-private cooperation ▲ (Strengthening citizen participation systems) Expanding citizen participation committees ▲ (Building a regional cooperative model of participation and decentralization) Establishing a foundation for activating cooperation among autonomous districts and counties ▲ (Enhancing the capabilities of cooperative actors) Strengthening tailored cooperative capabilities for each actor.

As a Busan-type cooperation agenda, the ‘2030 Busan World Expo public-private cooperation attraction campaign’ was included as a major task. Efforts are being made to concentrate capabilities on public-private cooperation for attracting the Busan World Expo.

The city plans to establish an annual implementation plan to ensure the tasks of the 1st basic plan are well executed, report to the ‘Busan Citizen Cooperation Council,’ and have the council monitor the progress.

Park Hyung-jun, Mayor of Busan, said, “With the establishment of the basic plan, we will actively respond to the rapidly changing urban and administrative environments,” and added, “By building a cooperation platform, we will expand and diversify citizen participation in city administration to create Busan as a cooperative city that moves forward into the future first.”

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