Civil Society Councils
The Civil Society Councils are a mechanism for citizen participation in which the bodies of the state administration are linked to representatives of the organized civil society. Its main objective is to join the highest authority of each ministry or public service in the decision-making processes of public policies. The Councils are consultative (non-binding), autonomous and made up of civil society members that are linked to the issues of the jurisdiction of the public administration body. In 2016, Chile registered 4 Civil Society Councils.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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