Colombia

District Council of Cultural Houses

The District Council of Cultural Houses was created as a setting for the District System of Art, Culture and Heritage of the Capital District, within the Local Subsystem of Art, Culture and Heritage. The Council is a setting for the meeting, deliberation, participation and coordination of public and private policies, plans and programs and the respective strategic lines of investment for the development of the Cultural Houses of Bogotá, in which representatives of the organizations of the sector of the cultural houses of the Local Councils of Art, Culture and Heritage, that also are part of the Subsystem, participate. Initially, the District System of Culture was created in 2002, and therein the creation of local systems of culture was indicated, but it was not until 2007 that the District Council of Cultural Houses was included, when a reform to this District System and established the District System of Art, Culture and Heritage with the Local Subsystem of Art, Culture and Heritage.

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
civil society  
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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