Local Development Committee
Local Development Committees or Councils are instances of local institutional citizen participation in El Salvador. They represent civil society organizations at the territorial and sectoral level. Its functions and formalization can vary between municipalities, but all are a link of consultation between the local government and the population. Its members participate in the prioritization of local problems and the search for solutions; the development of plans, programs and projects; the promotion of grassroots organizations, and some even oversee the finances of the municipality.
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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