Community Health Assemblies
The Community Health Assemblies are open and deliberative institutions, convened by the Health Committees (which are part of the Community Councils) at the local level. Their territorial basis depends on the Community Integrated Health Areas (ASIC). In these assemblies, which are normally held on the first Saturday of every month, neighbors and citizens are invited to inform themselves, give an opinion and collaborate on the conception and execution of Health Plans. They can provide ideas, proposals and criticism to improve the functioning of the national health system.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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