Roundtables for citizen participation in Lomas de Zamora
The Citizen Participation Tables in Lomas de Zamora are directed by the Secretary of Decentralized Management of the Municipality, and the decision to implement them was approved by the City Council. In these tables citizens are invited to discuss issues of their interest, and generate proposals to respond to them. By doing this, the administration gets to know the problems and demands of each neighborhood. These participatory instances are organized by districts, therefore, in order to participate in a roundtable it is necessary to live in the district where the roundtable meets. The roundtables are held in different city locations throughout the year. Representatives of government entities also participate in the tables, receiving the demands and suggestions of the neighbors.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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