Participatory Forums for a Sustainable Buenos Aires
The Participatory Forums for a Sustainable Buenos Aires were spaces organized by the City Foundation to call for a pluralistic and independent dialogue where citizens can deliberate on common issues related to urban space, public spaces and environmental conflicts in the city. In these Forums, citizens were invited to express their opinions, to learn different perspectives on a topic, to reflect, to deliberate, and to analyze costs and benefits, in order to reach consensus on proposals. These proposals were then raised to the local authorities in the form of declarations or propositions.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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