Self-managed Community Organizations (Organizaciones Comunitarias Autogestionarias; OCA)
The Self-managed Community Organizations (Organizaciones Comunitarias Autogestionarias; OCA) are participatory institutions created to organize the community at the neighborhood level. They were instituted as part of the Physical Enhancement Program of the Neighborhood Zones (later renamed the Endogenous Neighborhood Transformation Program); a technical and political project that aspired to address the country's housing problems. The objective of the OCA is to enable the community to participate actively in the construction of housing and local urban development, carrying out the planning and execution of projects, as well as being able to submit proposals to the Program.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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