Womens' Map
The Women's Map (port. #Mapadasmina) was a collective mapping organized by a group of citizens from the State of Rio de Janeiro with the goal of highlighting women candidates in the region during the 2018 elections. The project mounted a web platform that offers tools to find women and LGBT+ candidates in different municipalities and at the state level. Users can also search for candidates through filters according to their political positions on certain topics (HIV, reproductive health, LGBT+ rights, among others) and according to the type of candidacy (running as federal or state deputy, or as senator). They are also identified by political party. The initiative emerged as an answer to these citizens' concern about the absence and disparity in political representation, with very few women paticipating in elections at both national and state levels.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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