Urban Land Committees
The Urban Land Committees are self-management councils organized for housing construction and urban rehabilitation in marginal and shanty areas. Its creation is linked to the process of regularization of land tenure in urban neighborhoods and other popular urban areas of the country. Among their functions is the organization and promotion of neighborhood assemblies that debate housing problems and needs with the families affected. In addition, its members participate in the design, execution and monitoring of public policies during the integral rehabilitation of neighborhoods. Here, responsibilities include collecting information and creating an urban inventory to identify the geographical boundaries of the community. According to official data, there are more than 70 000 Urban Land Committees and an estimated 2 to 2.5 million people have participated in their activities.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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