Legislative Volunteering
Legislative Volunteering is a program that creates citizen innovation laboratories in several cities throughout the country. In these laboratories, citizens meet to diagnose problems in their cities and design innovative solutions. Furthermore, they work as volunteers implementing initiatives, such as recycling activities, food waste prevention, among many others. The topics addressed by the laboratories are diverse, but are focused on achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Occasionally, representatives of local laboratories meet in a national forum.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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