National Decentralization Agenda
After the 2006 general elections in Peru, a group representing multiple civil society organizations, Propuesta Ciudadana (Citizens? Proposal) launched the National Decentralization Agenda, a space to deliberate about the future of decentralization in the country. The Agenda first and foremost served to signal to the newly elected government the importance of political and institutional decentralization in a long run perspective. Furthermore, the Agenda collected information and expertise to create proposals and policy formulations around decentralization in all aspects of government: from budget and elections to cultural identity and citizen participation. And finally, the Agenda works also as a space of constant monitoring of the government?s efforts (or lack thereof) in this matter, through periodical reports.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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