Participatory Municipal Administration Cycle
The Participatory Municipal Administration Cycle is a process designed with the aim of strengthening public management and citizen participation. The cycle includes three types of events: 1) Municipal Summits, held three times per year and where event planning, information gathering, and local management oversight take place; 2) Advance Meetings, held twice a year to provide updates on upcoming events and administrative oversight; and 3) Meetings of Concurrent Decisions, organized at least every six months and are responsible for providing information on upcoming events, and coordinating decision-making among different areas of the municipality. These participatory spaces involve the local mayor, the municipal council, and representatives of the Surveillance Committees and Territorial Base Organizations (councils of indigenous peoples, peasant communities or neighborhoods).
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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