Community Councils of Civil Society Organizations
The Community Councils of Civil Society Organizations are an authority established by the "Constitutional Law of Municipalities" Law 18.695, which seeks to ensure the participation of the local community in the economic, social and cultural progress of the municipality. Among its main functions are to pronounce on the yearly public account of the mayor´s annual administration, to comment on the reports that the mayor will present on investment budgets, to plan municipal development and modifications to the regulatory plan and to provide consultations to the mayor regarding matters on which the Municipal Council must decide, among others. These councils seek to be an important space of participation to be used by social organizations to express their concerns and their differences with mayors, as well as for councilors to validate their plans of action and the service they provide to the community as municipal administrators.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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