Community Integration Centers
The Community Integration Centers (CIC) constitute public spaces for the integration, encounter and participation of different stakeholders at the local level. They promote intersectorial and participatory work in order to advance local development through social inclusion and improve the quality of life of communities. In each of the Centers there is an open Local Management Board which can be joined by neighbors, municipal representatives, community organizations, neighborhood clubs, churches, labor cooperatives, school and professional institutions. The tasks carried out at each center are broad and include, for example: coordination of social development policies and primary health care (prevention, promotion and social assistance, medical and dental care, vaccination); attention and accompaniment to the most vulnerable sectors; integration of community-based institutions and organizations that favor networking; and the promotion of cultural, recreational and popular education activities.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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