Brazil

You Know?

City/State/Region: Belo Horizonte - MG
Begin – End: 2018 – 2019
Name of organization in charge: Gabinetona
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

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: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

"Cê fraga?" (lit. Do you know?) is a mapping and recognition of cultural initiatives and projects in the city of Belo Horizonte, carried out by the deputies of Gabinetona, a collective mandate of the Municipal Council of the city formed by women representatives of the PSOL. They pledged, already during the campaign, to return part of their salary and donations to culture to combat the unfair distribution of wages between political representatives and workers. The mapping invites citizens to register cultural initiatives and projects with special attention and interest in projects by and for women, black people, LGBT + communities, indigenous groups and issues of human rights, solidarity economy, agroecology, among others. The mapping is processed by the Gabinetona team and then posted online. In addition, 15 to 20 initiatives are selected and rewarded with the donation of the salary of the representatives. The mapping took place in 2018 for the first time, and in 2019 for the second time.

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: not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-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://gabinetona.org/cefraga/index.html