Violence Prevention Workshops
The Violence Prevention Workshops are a community organization tool implemented with the objective of reducing the levels of violence in Caracas. These workshops arise as a response to the inefficiency of public policies in this matter. The workshops consist of meetings where neighbors and young people from the community participate and contribute in the identification of "hot spots", which are geographical areas that concentrate high levels of violence. Once the hot spots are identified, a community agenda of activities and actions to reduce and prevent violence is defined. Finally, the agenda is implemented by the community with the support of the civil organization "Caracas Mi Convive". To date, 200 workshops have been implemented in more than 150 communities. Additionally, the information gathered in the workshops is used to develop a map of violent hot spots in Caracas.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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