Municipal Councils of the City
The Municipal Councils of the City are consultative, deliberative and advisory bodies that aim to formulate, promote and integrate the public policies on urban development, as well as ensure the participation of society in decisions relating to the urban development of the city. The councils should preferably be comprised of 60% of civil society members and 40% of the public sector, in accordance with the decision of the 2nd National Conference of Cities.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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