District Councils for Cultural Heritage
The District Councils for Cultural Heritage are the organizations responsible for advising the district administration on the safeguarding, protection and management of cultural heritage and assets of cultural interest of the districts in which they are formed. These councils were first mandated in 2008 in the amendment of the General Law of Culture of 1997 and the creation of the National Council of Cultural Heritage (which replaced the Council of National Monuments created in 1997). The Law only indicates that these Councils must be created at the district level, but does not specify their composition, as this must be defined by the district authorities. What is indicated is that the characteristics of the cultural heritage in the respective district must be considered and that experts in the field of movable and immovable heritage, of intangible cultural heritage, and of public entities and academic institutions specialized in these fields must be able to participate. In addition, it is indicated that when indigenous or black communities are established in a territorial jurisdiction, at least one representative of the same must be involved. It should be noted that the Capital District has taken several actions in relation to these regulations. Initially, it established the District System of Arts, Culture and Heritage and as components of this, the Subsystem of Cultural Heritage, which was the District Cultural Heritage Council. Then, it created exclusively the District System of Cultural Patrimony, with which this Council was modified.
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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