Committees on Security and Integral Defense
The Committees on Security and Integral Defense are participatory bodies within the Communal Councils, formed by a minimum of five representatives of a community and whose central objective is to ensure citizen security at the local and communal level. Its members are responsible for identifying and controlling risk factors and conflicts between neighbors, crime, drug trafficking and consumption, natural accidents and other types of threats to institutional stability and social tranquility. Additionally among its functions are the training of the community for civil protection against natural disasters, as well as the preparation and motivation of the populace in the popular defense of the Bolivarian Revolution.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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