Unique Neighborhood Committees
The Unique Neighborhood Committees (Span. CUBs) are citizen structures created by the Municipality of Guatemala with the objective of strengthening decentralization, organization and local power of neighborhoods. It's main function is to act as intermediaries between the neighbors and the higher powers, bringing the needs, decisions and proposals agreed upon during the assemblies of the CUB to the auxiliary leaders or to the corresponding delegations. To form a CUB, the General Assembly of Neighbors must democratically elect the board of directors and, in addition, the unanimous vote of the Directorate of Social Development is needed. There are 717 CUBs according to data from 2009.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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