Zonal Committee of Santa Tecla
The Zonal Committee of the municipality of Santa Tecla is a mechanism for citizen participation that involves two representatives of each of the neighborhood organizations of a colony, neighborhood, community, hamlet or canton. In this space they analyze and discuss the different problems that exist in their territory and propose the best solutions. These conclusions and solutions are presented to the Citizen Council of Local Development of the municipality. Representatives of the Zonal Committee can participate in the Citizens' Assembly, exercise control functions and evaluate projects.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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