Open Town Halls Coahuila
The public hearings of the State of Coahuila are a participatory mechanism that allows citizens to engage with the regional or municipal authorities. Citizens can participate either individually, through citizen and community participation councils or local organizations. During the hearings, proposals, requests or complaints can be made to the competent authorities. If an immediate resolution is not reached during the hearing, the regional government or the respective municipalities must give a response within fifteen days.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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