Itinerant Cabinet
The Itinerant Cabinets are an organization through which the ministers and officials of the Ecuadorian State establish a direct dialogue with the citizens with the purpose of hearing and addressing the needs of the community. At the same time, officials are held accountable for their efforts by promoting citizen control over government actions. These local spaces for participation allow the direct definition of public investment priorities with community representatives. Instead of under-the-table clientele agreements there are open discussions on issues relevant to the community, such as social investment priorities, development projects or conflicts with socio-environmental issues. Between 2007 and 2017 around 60 cabinets were carried out throughout the country with an estimated 600 people participating.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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