Municipal citizen consultations
Municipal citizen consultations are convened by the City Hall of Panama and directed by the Directorate for Citizen Services. Between 2015 and 2017, more than 50 citizen consultations took place in 17 townships of Panama district, in which more than 500 citizens participated. Citizens can take part in various ways: debating and voting for or against projects, designing projects and/or choosing among several projects to decide how to allocate a given budget. Most of the consultations focused on projects aimed at building infrastructure, although residents also discussed cultural and environmental projects, as well as projects regarding territorial organization.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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