Municipal Public Hearings
The ?Municipal Public Hearings? are implemented each year with the aim of fostering municipal authorities? accountability to the population of Uruguay. During the hearings, mayors and councilors present the projects and actions implemented during the year. All citizens over 18 years old can freely join the hearings. Similarly, organizations, public and private bodies, as well as academic associations, among other actors, are welcomed to join the public hearings. Depending on the municipality, the themes addressed might vary; however, the overall objective is to provide detailed information to the citizens regarding the specific use of public resources.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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