Roundtables for Work and Consensus
The Roundtables for Work and Consensus are a mechanism for the participatory management of municipal parks. The mechanism was created by the Avellaneda Park Management Plan, and the experience was replicated in other parks in the City of Buenos Aires and surrounding districts, such as Villa Albertina Park and Parque de la Estación. The Roundtables for Work and Consensus make their decisions by consensus, with the participation of neighbors, representatives of local community organizations, and governmental agencies. This management mechanism was recognized by the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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