Executive Council of the Communes
The Executive Council of the Communes is the executive body for the decisions taken in the Communal Parliament. It has two spokespersons elected by the Communal Parliament and a spokesperson representing the socio-productive organizations in that Parliament. Its functions include: the referendum and execution of decisions taken in the Communal Parliament (mainly the Communal Development Plan), the formulation of the budget of the Commune, the convening of extraordinary parliamentary sessions, and the coordination of permanent committees for project management.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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