Neighbors in Action. Building a Beautiful City
The inter-neighborhood initiative "Neighbors in Action. Building a Beautiful City" was carried out between 2004 and 2014 with the aim of promoting the participation of the inhabitants of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the improvement and maintenance of the urban public space through intervention in their own neighborhoods and environments. The categories of work were: 1) Improvement of green areas; 2) Cleaning and repairing of public roads; 3) Improvement and installation of infrastructures of common use; 4) Special categories (originality, participating schools, among others). For three months the teams tracked their own progress. The neighborhoods selected as winners were those which, in addition to changing their appearance, achieved the participation of their neighbors, contributed to the quality of life of the community, and ensured the sustainability of their initiatives. At the end of the year the winners meet with each other to share their positive and negative experiences. The awards ranged from building materials and street furniture for green spaces, to donations of materials for infrastructures, computer equipment and printers.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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