Asunción Neighborhood Commissions
The Neighborhood Commissions of the city of Asunción are participatory spaces that seek to increase the engagement of neighbors and have the goal to improve the quality of life and find solutions to local problems. Any citizen of legal age, who lives in the corresponding area, can partake in that area's neighborhood commission. The Commissions have the capacity to manage and propose action plans regarding various subjects, acting as intermediaries between the citizens and the management of the Municipality. They can also assume the role of citizen oversight, with the task of reporting acts of corruption to the municipal authorities.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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