Brazil

Territories of Citizenship

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2008 – 2013
Name of organization in charge: Ministerios do Desenvolvimento Agrário
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: no

The Territórios da Cidadania (lit. Territories of Citizenship) program was launched by the Ministry of Agrarian Development in 2008, and is a continuation of the Programa dos Territórios Rurais. The main perspective of the program is that using territory delineation is the most effective way of implementing federal policies. ?Territorial boards? are formed by representatives of local governments, civil society and the private sector as a way of managing these areas. The main role of these boards is to incorporate society in federal policy planning for the municipalities in each specific territory. The federal action plan is elaborated by the government and then submitted to the territorial boards, which present their suggestions and demands. The main innovation of the program, when compared to the Rural Territories Program, is that it encompasses a debate on public policies on all themes and developed by a wide range of ministries, and not only policies linked to agricultural development. The area covered by the program is of 1,852 municipalities, or 33% of Brazilian municipalities, and it reaches 42.4 million people, 46% of the rural population.

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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

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