Venezuela

Communal Economy Committees

The Communal Economy Committees function as a participatory body within the local Communal Council, whose objective is to promote the diffusion of communal social property enterprises and community production networks. Thus, it seeks to promote the networks of production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods, services and knowledge based on social property. Among the functions of the committee is to perform a census to qualify the workforce of the community, the level of employment, the level of informal economy, the level of businesses of basic necessities, etc. They are also in charge of encouraging the exchange of non-financial resources in community barter days, and implement training programs, technical assistance and technological updating of socio-productive organizations.

Institutional design

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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 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

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