Territories of Identity
In 2008, the government of Bahia recognized the existence of 26 Territórios de Identidade (lit. Territories of Identity) in its territorial planning. Each of these territories consists of specific social and local arrangements of each region. This division has been used since then for the implementation of state-level public policies. It is expected that each territory create their own deliberative council comprised of representatives of local authorities and the civil society, with the aim of contributing to the adoption of public policies and their implementation. The main participatory mechanism in the council is the preparation of territorial development plans, which should guide the planning of state and municipal policies in each territory.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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