Municipal Participatory Councils (SP)
The Municipal Participatory Councils of the city of São Paulo were instituted by Law 15764, on May 27th, 2013, as autonomous bodies from civil society recognized by the Municipal Government. They are consultative and representative spaces which are present in 32 sub-prefectures of the city. Their function is to exercise social monitoring and to ensure participation in the planning and control of public actions and expenditures, as well as to suggest actions and public policies in the territories. They are composed of representatives of civil society elected by all citizens. The Participatory Councils are regularly composed of 1163 councilors, among which at least one immigrant in each council is counted (i.e. 38 immigrants).
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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