Community Councils
The Community Councils were a program of the National Government through which it was sought to generate spaces for interaction and permanent dialogue between the citizens, the authorities of the territorial order and the National Government, with the purpose of working concertedly and nimbly towards the solution of the problems, needs and concerns of the citizens, while seeking to stimulate transparency in public management, participatory democracy and strengthening institutional trust. These Councils were created under the government of Álvaro Uribe and remained throughout his term of two periods (2002 to 2010). They were carried out in multiple municipalities, departments, localities and sectors where the participants were able to present their demands and concerns about government management so that the authorities could respond or promise to take care of their solution. Likewise, it was sought to generate accountability processes from the various agencies of the public sector towards citizens insofar as the former presented the actions and results of their management. At the conference, anyone with a citizenship card could take part in the conference.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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