Regional Development Strategies
The Regional Development Strategies are the guiding instrument for regional development, and express the political consensus of two stakeholders in the territory regarding the image, objective or vision projected for the region on a long term basis. They have a temporary validity for a period of 5 to 10 years, which is flexible as long as they maintain the original conditions, the so-called baseline. The strategies, created in 1993, turned ino a mechanism for citizen participation in 2000, when participatory measures were incorporated into them. In general, the development processes include the participation of local, regional and community leaders, as well as experts from different areas, who intervene at different phases and in different themes.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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