Municipal Sanitation Councils
The Municipal Sanitation Councils are collegial, deliberative and advisory bodies comprised of representatives of the municipal administration, service providers, users and other social segments. The councils have the power to formulate public policies on basic sanitation, define their strategies and priorities, as well as monitor and evaluate their implementation. Its rules and competencies should be consistent with the principles, guidelines and objectives of the Municipal Policy of Basic Sanitation. It is of the council and other relevant local authorities? responsibility to approve the planning, and to regulate, supervise and evaluate the provision of basic sanitation services through the technical support of a qualified institution.
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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