Neighborhood Councils of Montevideo
The Neighborhood Councils are private, autonomous, regulated and recognized by the departmental government, with voluntary integration by neighbors created in 1993. They are integrated by 25 to 40 council members elected by a universal secret ballot in each zone. Its functions are for the proposal, advice and monitoring of the municipal administration besides having an important role in the planning and monitoring of the Public Budget. In addition, their participation in the development of the Five-Year Budget and the Management Commitments is emphasized and also participates in several thematic committees at the Municipal level.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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