Open Town Hall
The Cabildo is the open town hall meeting of the Municipal Council and the District Councils, to which the inhabitants of the canton are invited to participate directly in order to discuss matters of interest to the community. The date on which the town meeting will be held will not be less than one month after the meeting is set. All the people who have interest in the subject will be able to attend the open town halls. The meeting should be held in a public place located in the respective canton. If it considers it appropriate, the Municipal Council may establish a final date not less than one month from the dissemination of said call to receive written proposals from citizens regarding the subject up for discussion. The President of the Municipal Council will be in charge of directing the meeting.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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