Community Meetings
Community meetings are a mechanism for citizen participation focused on deliberation. Citizens meet to discuss problems in their township and possible solutions, such as proposals for the revitalization of public spaces. The call for events and their organization is in charge of the City Hall of Panama City. This innovation was replicated in 46 cases in 2017 in the district of Panama, and more than 1,000 Panamanians participated in the meetings.
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
- 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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