Occupy your street
"Occupy Your Street" is an initiative promoted by the Lima Watch Centers Cómo Vamos (lit. How are we Doing) and Avina Foundation to involve the populace in participating in the effort of recovering and restructuring public spaces, transforming them into areas of public use that better respond to the interests and needs of residents. The organizing groups and the neighbors of the place carry out urban interventions consisting of parklets, temporary closures of streets, pilot cycle paths and mini parks, murals and terraces, also called "pocket-parks?. These consist of simple, participatory and low-budget actions, temporary or of a more permanent nature, but which aspire to make a qualitative difference in the quality of life. In this way it aims to promote the recovery of disused spaces, improve existing ones, and generate new possibilities and alternatives for appropriation of the public space.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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