Approved in June 2024, the model is being implemented as current agreements expire and already in place for ten facilities in Sant Martí, a further ten in Nou Barris, four in Sants-Montjuïc and two in Sant Andreu, plus another in the district of Horta-Guinardó.

The initiative strengthens the values of civic management, with a public-community and citizen participation formula that has long been used in the city. One of the main new aspects is the definition of the procedures for awarding management contracts for facilities, open to all organisations interested in developing a civic management project of this type.

The model applies to public facilities fostering participation or non-specialist services which the City Council is not obliged to provide, such as neighbourhood centres, youth centres and other centres of a cultural nature. As an exception, it can also be applied to community centres, youth clubs, sectoral resources, centres for the elderly, art factories and sports courts. In these cases, civic management can only be promoted if there is a demand or a project by citizens that fosters participation or is in the general interest.

Another new aspect is the evaluation of the operation of facilities through the Communal Balance, a self-assessment and monitoring tool for projects from community and participation-based perspective. The goal of this tool is to assess, but also to help build community, create ties and relations, generate groups and add self-organisation capacity among those who participate.

Civic management has been set out in the Barcelona Municipal Charter since 1998 and there are currently 60 facilities that operate with this regulation, which favours participation and improves the impact and social return of projects.