Local Advisory Council
The Local Advisory Council is a participatory body of the municipality of La Matanza, which advises the local government on several issues. The Council discusses topics such as urban planning, social development, infrastructure, economy and industry, and local strategic development plans, among others. Representatives of universities, labor unions, businesses, civil society organizations and citizens participate in the Council, which holds meetings and debates in plenary sessions.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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