Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative
The Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative was proposed by the Inter-American Development Bank (Span. BID) with the objective of collectively formulating strategies to improve the sustainable development of Quetzaltenango. It was carried out with four central concepts: the modernization of municipal administration, governance and public finances, planning and urban mobility, and resilience to climate change. To this end, forums for dialogue and activities were carried out to strengthen and generate projects, implementing and monitoring them in a participatory manner. The project was carried out in different phases. The first included an assessment of the city's challenges. Based on this diagnosis, the priorities were defined and different action plans and investment priorities were demarcated. The initiative's participants included representatives from the local government, the private sector, students, and members of civil society organizations.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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