Chile

Citizen Lobby: Challenges and Opportunities at the Municipal Level

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2015 – 2015
Name of organization in charge: Fundación Multitudes
Type of organization in charge: civil society
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: -

Citizen Lobby: Challenges and Opportunities at the Municipal Level is a project of the Multitudes Foundation (NGO), through which the application of the Lobby Law in the Chilean municipalities is evaluated, as this participatory authority is considered of great relevance. In particular the project assesses what possibilities this law opens in vulnerable municipalities. In parallel, the Multitudes Foundation informs community leaders on the use of the lobbying law in order to increase citizen participation in political discussions. Specifically, "Citizen Lobby: Challenges and Opportunities at the Municipal Level" was an exercise of more than 6 months where almost 48 thousand hearings were categorized and cataloged between September 2015 and June 2016. Furthermore, between January and August 2015, the Multitudes Foundation, following its Social advocacy mission, offered workshops on the use of lobbying law to more than 400 social leaders in the country.

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: restricted
Type of participants: civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: no

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