Citizen Council of Fortaleza
The Citizen Council of Fortaleza was a pilot project promoted by Delibera Brasil, Fortaleza?s Observatory, and members of Fortaleza?s City Hall with the aim of making democracies more inclusive and demonstrating how deliberative processes can work in practice. With the aim of finding solutions for the management of solid waste in Fortaleza, Brazil, a citizen council was formed by 40 residents which were randomly selected through a software. The citizen council held 5 sessions throughout October, November, and December of 2019, in which they discussed and got deeper understanding on solid waste management. During the last sessions, the council elaborated a document with 19 recommendations derived from the ideas and proposals discussed during the sessions.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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