Local participation for the improvement of neighborhoods and coexistence
The Local participation for the improvement of neighborhoods and coexistence (Guararí de Heredia, Costa Rica), sought to transform the environment, generating a process of urban renewal through the improvement of the neighborhood and the creation of conditions for coexistence and security. The practice was developed from the work of the Association of Integral Development, a participatory forum that brings together the leadership of the community in association with the Municipality of Heredia. The priorities of the project were defined by the Municipality of Heredia, the Association for Integral Development and, later, a participatory forum of organizations and leaders of the settlement, in an equally participatory process of diagnosis, definition of priority needs and negotiation of agendas. From this project, the Municipality began to register improvements in the community infrastructure, the viability of public services; improvements in youth education, with a significant percentage of young people now in formal secondary education; and permanent improvement in security rates and positive perception of security in neighborhoods; 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
- 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
- unknown
- Co-Governance
- yes
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