Open Town Hall
The Open Town Hall meetings are a space for citizen participation in the Municipal Council. It is a working session, in which citizens and elected representatives debate. The meetings can be summoned by the Municipal Council, the Communal Boards, the Mayor or simply by citizens. Its convocation is of extraordinary form and usually implies the transfer to the communities that are affected by the subject under discussion. These councils seek a solution to a particular problem or open the floor for input from the community. Its decisions, with the approval of the majority of those present, are binding.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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