Plenary Session on Public Services
The Plenary Session on Public Services was created in 2009 with the aim of establishing communication channel directly between the municipality of the city of Canoas, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and its citizens. The sessions consist in citizens? assemblies carried out in all districts of the city, where the mayor presents the actions implemented, to which citizens can respond with complaints, suggestions and demands in writing or orally. From 2009 until the end of 2015, 12 editions were held.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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