Popular Law Labs (LabPops)
The Popular Law Labs are deliberative and participatory processes designed by the Cabinet, a collective mandate in the Municipal Council of Belo Horizonte promoted by the women's political movement As Muitas. Within this mandate, the elected councilors and the team, who work horizontally and share the mandate with other non-elected candidates from the same movement, each proposed bill is consulted with the public and with interest groups directly linked to the issue under consideration. The bills are frequently destined to the protection of women in vulnerable situations and minorities that are not considered by the law. The projects are built in an open and collaborative way from the moment of their inception.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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