Councils for Regional Development
The Councils for Regional Development are organizations for planning, coordination, promotion and evaluation of regional development within the National Planning System. These councils aim to promote regional development and will be integrated by the municipalities, decentralized public institutions, communal civic organizations, the productive sector and the academic entities of each region. They are made up of a Regional General Assembly, a Board of Directors, Sectoral Technical Committees, Cantonal Councils of Institutional Coordination (CCCI), Regional Rural Development Councils and Territorial Rural Development Councils. The functions of the Regional Development Councils are as follows: 1) To approve, execute and follow up the respective Regional Development Plan (PRD), which defines regional development policies, strategies, programs and projects, in accordance with the guidelines Of the National Development Plan (PND); 2) To resume the commitment to the development and long-term planning of the region, to propose alternative solutions to the problems and to establish preventative measures and management of disasters, among others.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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