Territorial Councils for Citizen Participation
The Law Nr. 1757 on Citizen Participation, passed in 2015, creates several mechanisms to include citizens in governance at different administrative levels. In addition to the National Council for Citizen Participation, this Law provides for the creation of Territorial Councils for Citizen Participation participation at the departmental, municipal and/or district levels. These councils have the capacity to advise and jointly implement policies for citizen participation policies at said local administrative levels. Its composition must reflect the representation provided for in the National Council but at the local level, that is, representatives of local economic groups, unions, peasant associations, ethnic groups, women's organizations, youth organizations, etc. The territorial councils must be summoned by the secretariat or local administrative division in charge of the participation systems.
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
- sporadic
- 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
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