Citizens? Council for the Planning of Arts and Culture
The Citizens? Council for the Planning of Arts and Culture has been in operation since 2005 and is one of the most active citizen councils in the municipality of La Paz. Its objective is to contribute to the formation of a participatory structure to create mechanisms that strengthen cultural activity, encourage criticism, competition and promote intercultural integration and dialogue. Among its main functions are: to collaborate with the municipal government in the programming and evaluation of Cultural Days, to participate in them and to diagnose their fulfillment.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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