Unit for Citizen Participation and Participatory Budgets
The Unit for Citizen Participation and Participatory Budgets is an entity, created within the Regional Government of Los Ríos in 2014, with the purpose of promoting and facilitating citizen participation in the performance of the Regional Government, as well as the decentralized bodies associated with the coastal territory. Among its main functions is to democratize information, implement regional participatory budgets and promote community action in planning and territorial management. Among the activities registered by this Unit are the dialogues for the creation of a Regional Citizen Participation Policy and the seminars for the elaboration of the participatory budget.
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
- unknown
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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