Participatory Management System
The Participative Management System (Span. SGP) is established by the Municipality of Quito in the year 2000 with the purpose of institutionalizing permanent citizen participation in the daily management of the Municipality. The initiative was framed in the Strategic Plan of Quito for the 21st Century and focused on the formulation of public policies with the participation of the community, through dialogue between the inhabitants of the district and the municipal government, during the process of planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation of public policies and programs. The participatory component of the system consists, on the one hand, in the establishment of citizen assemblies for deliberation at the local and metropolitan, and on the other hand on the establishment of management committees for an oversight/evaluation of the implementation of public decisions. These assemblies The proposal sought to address all these aspects in an intersectorial manner, including concepts of gender equality as well as generational, ethnic and environmental equality. This is done through the conclusion of agreements with universities, NGOs, public-private partnerships and other urban players. Among the specific activities of this initiative are decision-making on public policies with the participation of community leaders, and citizen control of the public budget. By 2001 this process had involved nearly 600 officials and more than 10 000 citizens who participated directly in more than 200 participatory events. Among the results achieved by the initiative are improvements in institutional capacity, as well as improvements in the quality of life of the population after the implementation of nearly a thousand participatory projects involving neighborhood improvements, health development, roads, transport, economic and social, security and citizen coexistence, 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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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