Public Policy for Culture of the Municipality of Quetzaltenango
The Public Policy for Culture of the Municipality of Quetzaltenango is the first public cultural policy carried out at the municipal level in Guatemala. After two years in which citizens and authorities proposed, debated and carried out activities to integrate the different sectors of society into its final rendition, the policy was approved in 2015. Its objectives are the strengthening of collective representativeness, and the creation of decentralized and deconcentrated cultural centers called "Culture Houses." These spaces are supported by monitors (practitioners and volunteers coordinated by the Municipal Directorate of Culture) and local animation and cultural management committees, who are in charge of the organization and implementation of sport, artistic and heritage preservation workshops. Its funding promotes the Orange Economy (Creative Economy), which integrates private initiative and sustainable investments.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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