Peru

Provincial Public Security Committee

The Provincial Public Security Committee is a body formed by a municipal decree of Oxapampa province, and backed by the National Citizen Security law, in 2013. The committee serves as a mechanism to incorporate citizen participation into the development of public safety policies in the province of Oxapampa. With 10 members from the regional and local government and from the civil society, the committee formulates policies, proposes plans and strategies to reduce crime in the province. It also serves to promote and train neighborhood councils in matters of security. Finally, the committee has the responsibility to evaluate the programs and strategies in security matter that the district committees implement in the province. Since 2013, the Committee assembles at least three times a year.

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
civil society  
Decisiveness
democratic innovation yields a binding decision  
Co-Governance
yes 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

Sources

How to quote

Do you want to use the data from this website? Here’s how to cite:

Pogrebinschi, Thamy. (2017). LATINNO Dataset. Berlin: WZB.

Would you like to contribute to our database?

Send us a case