Open Town Hall
As part of the decentralization process in Uruguay, the Law Nr. 18567 of Political Decentralization and Citizen Participation of 2009 established that all municipalities in the country must annually inform their neighbors about their management and plans for the future through a public hearing. In practice the hearings are known as "Open Town Hall Meetings" (span. Cabildos Abiertos). While in Montevideo the town halls have been accompanied by neighborhood assemblies, it is also possible to include topics on the agenda of the town hall by other means such as by email. The Town Halls are also integrated with other planning tools at the municipal level, such as participatory budgets in the case of Montevideo or with the Neighborhood Councils, which implies that the design of each one also depends on the participation structure at the municipal level.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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