Popular Committees for Habitat
The Popular Committees for Habitat are spaces for the coordination of strategies and proposals by communities seeking access to housing, cities, and the guarantee of the right to housing, and are prepared to carry out diagnoses, consensuses and proposals to the United Nations Habitat Conferences on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. These spaces are intended to coordinate national and regional strategies and proposals that arise from individuals, local organizations and communities, who in general are not represented and cannot get their voices, their needs and their knowledge to the global agendas. They are promoted by the Economic Housing Association (AVE) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET). They are also carried out on the basis of agreements signed with municipalities and provinces, and with local and regional civil society 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
- 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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