Local Flood Assemblies
The Local Flood Assemblies constitute a group of social organizations, self-summoned, non-partisan and non-governmental, that began to meet in 2013 after the severe flooding of La Plata. From deliberation meetings, the participants of these Assemblies - mainly residents of each neighborhood, as well as social organizations and volunteers - found channels to express their demands, alternative proposals and reflections on the use of the city, public space and investment in infrastructure in the territory. These spaces also began to generate interventions and proposals for the improvement and control of the execution of urban works.
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
- yes
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