Citizen Encounters
The Citizen Encounters are participation spaces created by Decree in Bogota in 1998, in which the citizens can hear the proposals of the local authorities for the construction of the Local Development Plan and make recommendations and adjustments, as well as their own diagnoses, issues, solutions and formulation of proposals. As a result, the Local Mayor must draw up the Development Plan in accordance with the agreements made at these Meetings. Likewise, the purpose of these spaces is for citizens to follow up on the implementation of the Plan and to evaluate the reports submitted by the Local Mayor in accordance with the provisions of the district regulations. The Citizen Encounters have been carried out over the years across the 20 localities of Bogota and also the department of Meta, which decided to adopt them in its 29 municipalities. They involve social organizations and citizens from different social sectors who are affected by the Development Plan issues to be addressed in their locality or municipality. Some consider that this is one of the most important spaces at the local level in which citizens can express their opinions and raise their proposals.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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