Provincial Councils of Popular Participation
The Provincial Councils of Popular Participation are instances that help establish agreements between the Mayor's Office, the Sub-Prefecture and organized civil society. Among its primary functions are: 1) to identify and prioritize demands for local economic development; 2) to execute and implement productive and social programs and projects; 3) to prevent and resolve conflicts at the provincial level; and 4) to promote coordination between different sectors of the municipality for the elaboration of the Participative Municipal 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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