National Council of Urban and Rural Development in Guatemala
The National Council of Urban and Rural Development in Guatemala brings together members from five levels of the government, including representatives of the Community Development Councils, the Departmental Development Councils, the Community Assemblies, the Municipal Development Councils, as well as national and regional representatives. The council was created with the aim to draft policies oriented towards rural and urban development, creating mechanisms to prioritize and allocate budgets from the local level to the central government. The Council is set within the framework of the National Constitution. The council is formed by the President of the Republic and various representatives of indigenous, academic, peasant, and women 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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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