Community Security Councils (CCS) of Rio de Janeiro
The Community Security Councils (CCS) in Rio de Janeiro are consultative bodies that advise the security forces on policy formulation and bring the latter closer to civil society. The councils are made up of citizens, representatives of unions and non-governmental organizations, academic and private sector institutions, and representatives of the security forces. The councils are inspired by the principle of decentralization, and while there may be municipal councils, there are also councils that comprise communities and even specific neighborhoods. There are also councils that emerged encompassing a larger territory and were subsequently subdivided. At the council meetings, participants discuss local problems related to security, criticize the institutional performance of the security forces and propose solutions.
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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