Territorial Peacebuilding from Below
The "Territorial Peacebuilding from Below" was a project created by serveral community leaders in Antioquia who worked together with academics, private entities and civil society organizations in seven municipalities. This citizen innovation was conceived with the objective of developing the territory through dialogue, and participatory planning and evaluation. The initiative was carried out in three phases. First, two working groups were created: the first collaborated with the municipal governments and the municipal councils in the construction of citizen peace agendas that allowed the continuity of projects despite changes in local governments, and the second trained leaders on the process of peace in Colombia. The second phase consisted in sharing these agendas with the local authorities, and the third in following up on the level of embeddedness of these proposals in the development programs of the municipalities through mechanisms of social control and the creation of spaces for dialogue between citizens and authorities.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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