Santo André - City of the Future
Santo André Cidade do Futuro (lit. Santo André, City of the Future Project) was launched in 1999, and is the Local Agenda 21 (A21L) of the city of Santo André. The project is a planning proposal for the city that seeks to include scenarios, guidelines, goals and actions for the next 20 years with the active participation of the community. This process was based on nine fundamental axes of discussion: economic development, urban development, environmental quality, social inclusion, education, cultural identity, state reform, health, and fighting urban violence. The project began after forming a managing committee with majoritarian representation of civil society. Afterwards, thematic working groups were assembled to conduct discussions and public hearings on topics related to local development. The next step was to hold two municipal conferences, an exhibition at a university and an international seminar based on the managing committee and thematic groups? project outcomes. All of these deliberative forums culminated in programmatic guidelines to subsidize the adoption of policies by the city hall. There was also an intense dialogue between this project and other citizen participation mechanisms, such as the participatory budget and the discussion about the master plan. It is estimated that around 18,000 people participated in the process.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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