Neighborhood Improvement Program (PMB)
The Neighborhood Improvement Program (Span. Programa de Mejoramiento Barrial - PMB) is financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and is in charge of the Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment. The program aims to improve the quality of life in Irregular Settlements (AI) in areas such as access to homes, basic infrastructure and social and urban services. The program has been around since 1999 and, starting in December 2014, a new guide for the formulation and execution of projects was established, which strengthened participation, mainly through the holding of several open assemblies such that neighbors could have the possibility to express their ideas and remain informed about the progress of the project. Different commissions were also established, such as the Project Monitoring Commission (CSP), the Sub-commission of Works Monitoring (SCSO) and the Sub-Commission of Rehouse (SCR), all through citizen participation. In addition to developing infrastructure projects, the program also aims to improve community development and to include the environment and gender perspective as central considerations. From 1999 to 2014 the program has been implemented in 152 neighborhoods throughout Uruguay.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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