Local Coexistence and Citizen Security Tables
The Local Coexistence and Citizen Security Tables were created in 2006 as part of a joint project conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP). The Tables are integrated by the neighborhood section with the community police, representatives of neighborhood councils, representatives of State institutions at the local level, and any neighbors interested in participating. The Tables were constituted as spaces for debate and participation between different social stakeholders, in order to conduct a joint analysis of each local situation with regard to public security, and to foster the common resolution of coexistance conflicts, to develop a Zonal Diagnosis and from it to present possible strategies for intervention, with the ultimate objective of developing a Local Action Plan. In this way, the Tables aim to give a new profile to the Police and to create an atmosphere of peaceful coexistence, since the concept is presented from a prevention prespective. The emphasis is on participation, assuming that security cannot be conceived as a one-sided State service. These Tables have been formed throughout the country.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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