Zonal Commissions for Montevidean Women (Women's Commune Program)
The Zonal Commissions for Montevidean Women co-manage the Women's Commune program of the City Hall of Montevideo. The Women's Communes are spaces of participation and meeting for women to promote the development of initiatives, strengthen their rights and respond to specific needs. The organized group offers programs of social assistance, workshops and cultural programs. On the other hand, they coordinate with regional and local authorities as well as with other women's organizations to define policy priorities and monitor actions. Thus, the commissions have been part of the process of formulating the Montevideo Equality Plans, and some have also formulated plans for the local administration. They have also been an important part of the process of drafting the Domestic Violence Act (Law 17.514). Eleven Women?s Communes were created within their respective Zonal Councils and in 2005 an estimated total of approximately 400 women were linked to the Councils.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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