Metropolitan Planning Council
The Metropolitan Planning Council is a deliberative council responsible for the local deliberative processes around the planned development projects and social policies for the Quito Metropolitan District. In accordance with strategic guidelines for citizen participation, the planning council serves as a consulting agency for the Assembly of the Metropolitan District. The members of the Planning Council include: the mayor of the city, a councelor for strategic planning, a secretary, three representatives of civil society, and a representative of the parochial units within the territory of the Metropolitan Disctrict of Quito. As an agency of the National Decentralized System of Participative Planning, they must draft guidelines and recommendations on the plans for metropolitan development in the short, medium and long term, as well as checking for their coherence with the National Development Plan.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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