Life and Equity Journeys
This initiative is implemented by the Mayor's Office of Medellín with the objective of involving citizens in defining problems in their communities and in making decisions to solve them. Through face-to-face meetings between officials of the Mayor's Office and citizens, participants discuss the main problems of their communities to find joint solutions. Once the problems have been defined, citizens design projects to present to the community. Through voting, citizens choose the projects that will receive funding from the Mayor's Office to be implemented. To date, 20 Journeys have been held, in which 38,835 people have participated.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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