Colombia

District Council for Cultural Facilities

The District Council for Cultural Facilities was created as a setting for the District System of Art, Culture and Heritage of the Capital District, within the Subsystem of Cultural Facilities. The Council is a setting for deliberation, participation and coordination of public and private policies, plans and programs and the respective strategic lines of investment for the development of processes concerning the incorporation of culture in the territorial order of the city and the participatory management of the Master Plan of Cultural Facilities. In this Council the cultural agents, organizations, associations and trade unions of the different cultural expressions, civic centers and populations, public and private bodies and representatives of the other Councils of the System of Art, Culture and Patrimony participate. Initially, the District System of Culture was created in 2002, but it was not until 2007 that the cultural facilities were mentioned, when a reform was made to this System and the District System of Art, Culture and Heritage was established and as a component of this, the Subsystem of Cultural Facilities and the District Council of Cultural Facilities.

Institutional design

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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 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

Sources

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