Ña Puá for a Law of Citizen Participation
Ña Puá for a Law of Citizen Participation is the name of a promoting group, whose main objective was to have at least one Chamber of Congress debate a Law of Citizen Participation. They achieved their goal by lobbying and organizing regional forums debating the bill. In addition, they were able to promote the content of the bill in the press and through citizen forums for debate. Citizen Comptrollers from different cities across the country, non-governmental organizations and citizen federations were part of this group.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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