Municipality on the Streets
The Prefeitura na Rua (lit. Municipality on the Streets) project was created in 2009 and consists of assemblies convened by the municipal administration of Canoas in each of its four administrative regions. The initiative, which takes place on Saturdays, consists in an open debate between citizens and the mayor of the city and its secretaries on topics of interest to the community. The idea is to present the local government?s actions in the region, and listen to complaints and suggestions from citizens, with the main objective of bringing citizens and the State together via popular participation. In these meetings, each representative of the Executive branch, including the mayor, hears the citizens? opinions, which are then processed by the local administration. By 2014, 220 editions, with over 22 thousand participants, had been organized.
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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