Base Territorial Organizations (former Neighborhood Committees)
The "Base Territorial Organizations" are councils of indigenous peoples, rural and peasant communities, or neighborhoods. They are legally constituted to prioritize the projects that are developed within these groups' territories. The projects can be related to health, education, and infrastructure. The council can participate in the designing of these initiatives, request reports of municipal governments on the use of resources, as well as to propose to the governmental or municipal authorities the change of officials and representatives.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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