Participatory budgeting and unsatisfied basic needs. A socio-spacial approach in the Metropolitan District of Quito

Participatory budgeting mechanisms link citizens with public resources management to execute public policies for the benefit of their territories. A link government-citizens is the participatory budgeting (PP, Spanish acronyms) assigned for each parish using parameters, such as population, poverty due to unsatisfied basic needs (NBI, Spanish acronyms), and population density. This work uses as a case study the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ, Spanish acronyms) performing a comparative analysis between NBI and PP, to identify their spatial distribution. It’s socio-spatial research through the use of geographical information systems and the application of a spatial evolution of PP from 2016 to 2019 and the univariate Moran’s index. The results show that the parishes of the DMQ are spacially grouped both in the PP and the NBI and that the resource allocation doesn’t necessarily occur in parishes with a higher index of NBI. Is concluded that there are budget and needs differences, where the central area is more favored than the north and south areas of DMQ; there is predominance of urban areas over rural areas.