Venezuela

Community Committees for Persons with Disabilities

The Community Committees for Persons with Disabilities are citizen participation bodies that strive to ensure inclusion and equal opportunities for people with disabilities. Under its powers are the promotion of the participation and training of this group, the development of disability care plans in the community, the carrying out of a census of people with disabilities, and the management of projects and plans for this group. These spaces are part of the Working Committees of the Communal Councils and perform their tasks in coordination with several committees, such as the Committees for Protection and Social Equality, Recreation and Sports, Community Economy, Education and Health.

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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