Municipal Development Plans / Development Strategies
With the approval of the Regulation of Law 176-07 (Law of the National District and Municipalities) in 2007, municipalities are obliged to elaborate and approve Municipal Development Plans. The plans should contain a vision and a strategy for general municipal development, identifying priorities, as well as giving the authorities guidelines for the development of their policy in the years to come. These are valid for four years and must be drafted by the newly elected municipal governors within six months after their inauguration. The Social and Economic Council, the Municipality and the citizens are the three parties involved in the elaboration, execution and evaluation of the plans. Although, citizen participation is a fundamental part of the formulation and evaluation of the plan, the Law does not specify how the Council should include the preferences of citizens - it is up to the Council to determine the means to adapt to the characteristics of the municipality and to ensure citizens' participation and translation of their preferences into the plan. Prior to the application of Regulation 176-07, some municipalities such as Santiago, Villa González and Altamira had carried out development plans. By 2015, 16 municipalities have established plans indicated by the Law, 11 municipalities were in the planning process and eight had undertaken initial preparatory measures for the development of the plans.
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 a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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