About us
We created MunCo because we believe that a municipality, a community, works well and we feel comfortable in it when we make decisions together. Our trainings are about how we can adopt a participatory mindset in our everyday life, how we can introduce different participatory decision-making techniques, how we can improve the processes we have already started so that their results are sustainable and accepted by all. Together we build community!
Péter Szabados
In 2010, she graduated from the Corvinus University of Budapest with a degree in International Relations. This year he was elected as a municipal councillor, a position he held for one term. He has worked in the capital, has been and is currently a member of the supervisory board of various district and capital municipal companies, and is an external committee member of the District II Municipality. In 2019, she started working at the Civil College Foundation, where she implemented an international project based on her experiences in the United States, where she helped NGOs and municipalities to work together. During her years in the civil sector, she gained experience in the practical application of different participatory tools.
Daniel Oross
He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Corvinus University of Budapest (2015). He has published numerous articles on youth participation, analysed political decision-making processes in Hungary, and is the lead researcher of several national and international studies on democratic innovations that encourage citizens' political participation. For his monograph on Democratic Innovations and Hungarian Political Parties, he was awarded the Aurél Kolnai Prize for the best Hungarian political science publication of the year by the Hungarian Political Science Association in 2024.
Our services
Municipal Participation Workshop
To introduce the different tools for community participation and the benefits they can bring to local government.
Presentation of online tools and developments related to the topic. Encourage collective thinking to better integrate participatory tools into municipal decision-making processes. To discuss practical issues that arise during implementation and generate ideas for improvement in the workshop.
Idea generation board game with citizens
"Our Town" is a game designed to help citizens generate ideas to plan a participatory budget for a town or city. Discussions and guidance during the game will help participants to develop ideas that meet the call for a participatory budget, fitting in with the conditions set by the municipality. The discussions will help participants to formulate new ideas and help each other to develop more proposals and better ideas.
Community budget planning workshops
The participants in the process and the NGOs and citizens of the district considered by the municipality as priority target groups will be involved in the evaluation and in making suggestions in the feedback workshops on the Community budget.
Citizens' forums
Identifying problems related to public forums, involving experts, making recommendations, and providing analysis for municipal decision-makers.
Community design
Identify problems related to community planning, involve experts, make recommendations, provide analysis for municipal decision-makers.
Community meeting
Identify possible topics for a community meeting organised by the municipality, identify problems specific to the district, involve experts, make recommendations, prepare a feasibility study for municipal decision-makers.
Exploratory interviews
Exploratory interviews with the managers responsible for the Community budget process (deputy mayor, cabinet staff, head of communication, head of office, heads of department, NGO officer); Analysis of the interviews, preparation of preliminary findings and summaries.
Communication advice
Providing advice and collecting good practices on information materials for the public on the process.
Focus group interviews
With the municipal actors responsible for the process and with relevant local actors, NGOs, businesses, etc.
Monitoring plan
Develop a data collection and reporting plan for monitoring and future impact measurement.
Office organisational development
2 months of organisational development advice, written proposal for organisational design, training, job descriptions.
Rulebook on implementation
A specific rulebook, based on international and national good practices, to support transparency and sustainable operation The rulebook is a detailed document that sets out the details of the implementation of the Community budget managed by the municipality (organisational structure, roles, proposal of ideal implementation elements, flowchart, IT infrastructure).
Contact
1097 Budapest, Ipar utca 2 B 3/11
