Neighborhood Improvement Program
The Neighborhood Improvement Program (San José, Costa Rica) originated through concern of the degree of deterioration of many local districts, reducing the opportunities of improvement of the living conditions of its inhabitants of the municipality of San José, Costa Rica. As an institutional policy, "the promotion and leadership of a coordinated and determined work between public and private stakeholders and the community, improving the living conditions of the citizens, paying special attention to children and young people, impoverished, homeless people and those who suffer extreme poverty, gender equality and the elderly? was established. Since 2003, 22 priority districts have been selected taking into account socio-cultural, organizational and urban planning criteria. Until 2016 the work of improving informal settlements has targeted 12 different districts. This process has been based on the participation of the neighbors of the district through a process that begins with the geographical identification of the district, an approach to community-based organizations through joint visits with municipal specialists, citizens, organizations and leaders.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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