Comprehensive Program for the Improvement of Informal Neighborhoods
The Comprehensive Program for the Improvement of Informal Neighborhoods (Span. PRIMED) was a program of the Mayor's Office of Medellín resulting from cooperation between the German Government and KFW and the Development Program for the United Nations, which began in 1993 and lasted 7 years. The program sought to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the most conflictive, dangerous and informal neighborhoods of the city of Medellín by improving housing, adapting neighborhoods and structures, mitigating geological risks and the legalization of properties. The Program was based on the principles of citizen participation, the cooperation between entities and stakeholders, the improvement of standards, minimum subsidies and integrality in all fronts. As a result, for example, schools, restaurants and community halls, neighborhood structures, parks, high-risk areas were recovered and land was titled. Likewise, there was a high degree of approval and legitimacy on the part of the communities.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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