Neighborhood City
Neighborhood City was a World Bank-funded project that used a participatory process for urban development and violence prevention in communities with high rates of poverty and insecurity. The project took place between 2005 and 2013. During this period, local governments relied on residents, who identified, planned and implemented improvement projects. The activities of the project were carried out with close collaboration between the government and the community. In effect, residents made proposals to the government for the urban development of their communities. They also supported the implementation of sub-projects and ensured the transparency of these processes. The initiative was carried out in 8 neighborhoods and about 60 000 inhabitants participated in it. Among the achievements of the project there are improvements in basic infrastructure, such as the connection to the water supply system and public lighting. Likewise, the evaluations carried out indicate a considerable impact on the improvement of the living conditions and access to public services of the residents of the neighborhoods where the project was implemented.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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