Local Security Boards
Utilizing citizen participation, the Local Security Boards (Span. Juntas Locales de Seguridad or "Juntas") are in charge of managing the closure of streets, reporting criminal acts, gathering evidence and analyzing the problems of insecurity in their municipalities. They consist of two presidents (one representative of the municipality and one representative of civil society), a secretary, members and guests. According to police data, in the year 2013, 717 Juntas were registered, with a total of 7177 members, however there are more than 300 Juntas operating outside the law (Vásquez, 2013).
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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