Local Popular Consultation on the Autonomy of Guayas Province
The local popular consultation on the autonomy of the province of Guayas was promoted by civil society and sub-state entities in order to verify the opinion of the population about granting greater administrative and governmental autonomy to the province of Guayas. As in the other four provinces that held this consultation, the approval rating for autonomy reached 80% of the votes. At the sectional level, in addition to Guayas, the consultations were carried out in Los Ríos, Sucumbios, El Oro and Manabí.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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