Uruguay

Perform Program

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2011 – 2013
Name of organization in charge: Intendencias MunicipalesMinisterio de Transporte y Obras Públicas (MTOP)
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: partial
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The Perform Program was a project of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works in conjunction with the City Halls and Municipalities throughout the country, whose objective was to encourage citizen participation in the proposal and decision process of works to be carried out. Through an online platform, all citizens could register and submit proposals. After a selection of plausible proposals to be made, all citizens were invited to vote for their favorite proposal, and voting could be done online or in person. There was also the option of accessing online tracking of items defined on the page as projects, evaluations, queries, comments, etc. The program was created in 2011 and was implemented three times, also with the intention of strengthening decentralization and working together with different levels of government, to strengthen the new structure that took place in Uruguay by establishing the level of the municipality in 2010. On the other hand the intention was to give voice to the citizens and to contribute to the community infrastructure.

Institutional design

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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: open
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://realizar.gub.uy/