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Strategic Planning Workshops for the definition of the strategic guidelines of the Pilot Project for the Prevention of Violence and Juvenile Delinquency

City/State/Region: Santa AnaCalidoniaEl ChorrilloSan Felipe
Begin – End: 2010 – 2010
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio de la Presidencia
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: no
Policy Outcome: -

The Strategic Planning Workshops for the definition of the strategic guidelines of the Pilot Project for the Prevention of Violence and Juvenile Delinquency were organized in the communities of the municipalities of Calidonia, Santa Ana, San Felipe and El Chorrillo, where the project was implemented. The objective was that the inhabitants themselves would contribute by inputting ideas for consideration in the guidelines. Workshops were organized to facilitate the exchange of ideas and opinions among community leaders, parents, and youth. The participants validated and completed proposals for the definition of a strategy for consensus and realistic intervention in the situation of violence and juvenile delinquency at the local level. They also agreed on commitments and mechanisms for articulation. The Roundtables were organized around three themes: 1) Violence, Culture of Peace and Citizen Participation; 2) Social, Educational and Labor Insertion of the Child and Youth Population in Social Risk; and 3) Community and Security.

Institutional design

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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: single
Mode of selection of participants: both
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation