Citizen Assemblies of Santa Fe?s Provincial Strategic Plan
The purpose of the Citizen Assemblies of Santa Fe?s Provincial Strategic Plan is to foster citizen deliberation in workshops which lead to the formulation, follow-up and evaluation of the Provincial Strategic Plan of Santa Fe. Between 2008 and 2013, 70 citizen assemblies were held, in which local and communal authorities, citizens, representatives of civil society organizations and government agencies participated. In the citizen assemblies, regional diagnoses and strategic projects were formulated, projects were prioritized, progress in the implementation of the Provincial Strategic Plan was monitored, and the update of the foresaid plan was discussed and developed.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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