Citizen Assemblies
The Citizen Assemblies of Mexico City are an instrument for citizen participation through which the inhabitants meet to discuss matters related to their "colonia" (neighborhood), issue opinions and evaluate public programs, policies and services. The sessions of the Assembly are public, the inhabitants have the right to speak, while citizens with updated voting credentials have the right to vote. It allows participation in the assembly by all neighbors, including children and young people, who have the right to speak. Resolutions of citizen assemblies are mandatory for citizens' committees, village councils and neighbors of the corresponding neighborhoods.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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