Open Town Halls
The Open Councils in Bolivia, also known as "Public Hearings", are a citizen participation mechanism implemented and convened by the Municipal Councils and Commissions within the framework of the Municipal Autonomous Governments Law. During these hearings, the demands and suggestions of citizens are heard. The civil society engages in a dialogue with local authorities, either individually or collectively. The frequency and manner of these assemblies are delimited at the local level.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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