Brazil

Bill of Popular Initiative for the National Fund for Housing

The Bill of Popular Initiative for the creation of the National Fund for Housing, later Act 11.124/2005, first began its legal proceeding in 1992 and was updated with the substitute 00036/2004. It foresees the creation of an investment fund for low-income housing in Brazil from funds relocated from the Worker?s Support Fund and the Time of Service Guarantee Fund. This was the first Bill of Popular Initiative proposed in Brazil, although it only passed in 2005, 14 years later. Laws of Popular Initiative are provided for in Brazil by the Constitution of 1988. In order to commence this legislative process, the bill must be supported by one per cent of the national electorate in at least five states and at least 0.3% of voters from each state.

Institutional design

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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
single
Mode of selection of participants
open 
Type of participants
citizens civil society  
Decisiveness
democratic innovation yields no decision  
Co-Governance
no 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

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