Community Neighborhood Boards
The Community Neighborhood Boards are local organizations for the representation of social organizations at the municipal level, convened by the Council that have a voice (but no vote) in their sessions. They are formed as spaces for the debate and participation regarding the proposal, evaluation and monitoring of various policies at the municipal level. They are designed as a link between the municipal government and local problems, forming a kind of forum in which citizens can discuss conflicts and needs and coordinate with the responsible 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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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