Community Parliaments
The Community Parliaments are deliberative institutions made up of representatives of civil society at the local level. It includes citizen spokespersons elected by the Communal Councils, the socio-productive organizations of the community and a representative of the Communal Bank. They meet once a month to make decisions on the regulation of social and community life. Its functions are mainly related to the government, the planning of local development and the coordination of plans together with other government and self-government directives in the Communes.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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