Units of Citizen Participation
The Units of Citizen Participation are an authority that each body of the State Administration must recognize in its administrative organization. Furthermore, this authority must be connected to the first hierarchical level of the body and to have direct dependence on the head of the respective service. The main function of this unit is to provide the necessary administrative measures to ensure the effectiveness of the mechanisms for Public Participation in public management. In particular, it will be in charge of providing the necessary conditions for the proper functioning of the Civil Society Council, providing resources and spaces for holding sessions, managing and carrying out the training for its representatives, among other measures that seek to strengthen it. Among the specific activities that they develop are the participation units, such as the Citizen Participation Unit of the Chilean Antarctic Institute, which is responsible for the following functions: a) promoting mechanisms for citizen participation in the formulation stages, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the policies and programs promoted by the service; b) promoting the strengthening of civil society within the competence of the service, as well as the general public, through the provision of information resources on the performance of its functions and the promotion of partnership with peers and the State itself. These Units are established by Law 20.500 for Citizen Participation. By the year 2016, 55% of the entities (63 units) had been formed, while 45% did not possess and / or did not report this information.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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