Committees of the Towns and Neighborhoods of Native Origin
The Committees of the Towns and Neighborhoods of Native Origin are representative citizen bodies in the villages where traditional authority is maintained in accordance with traditional norms, procedures and practices. The Committees respect the traditional authority and the role it plays in decision-making. This authority is chosen by the towns of native origin according to their own rules and customs, following the mechanisms that they have defined throughout their history. They are responsible, among other things, for integrating, analyzing and promoting solutions to demands made by the neighbors of their community.
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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