Citizen Oversight of the Initiative of Emergent and Sustainable Cities
The Citizen Oversight of the Initiative of Emergent and Sustainable Cities (ICES) is a mechanism developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with the purpose of promoting citizen participation in controlling the development of Panama?s Metropolitan Action Plan. In this framework, civil society monitors the degree of implementation of the recommendations included in the plan. IDB proposes the monitoring to be annual, impartial and technical, for which it designates a technical cooperation agency that will assist citizens in this task. The oversight system is expected to increase the probability that the projects designed by the Action Plan transcend changes in local government, as well as foster citizen involvement in issues concerning their locality. Additionally, given that the ICES is implemented in various cities, a goal of the Monitoring System is to generate indicators that allow for comparisons between cities.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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