Citizens' Council of Fortaleza
The Citizens' Council of Fortaleza was created as an initiative of the Local Executive Branch, the NGO New Democracy and the group Delibera Brasil, with support from the United Nations. The participants are 40 citizens, who are selected through a lottery. The objective of the Council is to propose solutions to the problem of urban waste in the city. The participants receive information on the state of the issue under discussion, and then meet in 5 sessions to exchange ideas. In the last session, the Council must prepare a document with possible solutions.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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