Municipal Development Councils
The Municipal Development Councils seek to create comprehensive local development plans with the participation of citizens and representatives of different local organizations. In workshops, they evaluate local situations and draft local development plans with technical support from the Technical Secretariat for Planning. By bringing together the public, private and civil society sectors, the Councils seek to increase citizen participation and thereby increase the level of transparency in public administration. The Councils began to form in 2016, as part of the commitments Paraguay made under its National Action Plan for Open Government 2014-2016 in the National Development Plan for 2030.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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