Argentina

Neighborhood Improvement Program (PROMEBA)

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1997 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio del InteriorObras Públicas y Vivienda
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local regional national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: partial
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The Neighborhood Improvement Program (PROMEBA) seeks to improve the quality of life through the social integration and urban inclusion of economically disadvantaged sectors. It is a program that at the neighborhood level calls for different types of deliberation and participation, such as Management Boards, Executing Units and Multidisciplinary Field Teams to listen and include the visions of the population residing in villages and irregular settlements with respect to urbanization programs, installation of infrastructure and generation of public spaces and recreation. Through this program, state agencies, neighborhood organizations, utilities, construction companies, professional associations and civil society organizations come together to define comprehensive neighborhood projects and carry out some of the actions that the projects envisage.

Institutional design

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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: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

ttp://www.promeba.gob.ar/