Citizen Committees (formerly Neighborhood Committees)
The Citizen Committees (formerly Neighborhood Committees) are organizations that represent the inhabitants of a neighborhood for a period of three years. Through this honorary representation, the members of the committee establish relations for collaboration between the neighbors and various authorities of Mexico City in order to contribute to solving general problems. The Committees participate on the elaboration of diagnoses and proposals for the integrated development of the colony and supervise the development and execution of works, services or activities agreed on by the citizen assembly for the neighborhood. In 2019, after the implementation of the new Law for Citizen Participation in Mexico City, these committees were substituted by the "Community Participation Commissions".
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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