Second Regional Development Project of the Magdalena Medio
The Second Regional Development Project of the Magdalena Medio was a project implemented between 2001 and 2004 that had the objective of increasing the influence of citizens in local and regional development, improving receptivity and accountability of local institutions towards citizens and generating tangible social and economic benefits for the citizenry. This project was a product of the alliance between the World Bank and the Government of Colombia, as well as the positive results of the First Magdalena Medio Regional Development Project implemented between 1998 and 2000. However, unlike the first project, the second focused on the participation and influence of the citizens, grassroots organizations and local leaders as agents of change as new ways to manage and operate the Magdalena Medio Regional Development Project. Their results showed important impacts, such as the creation of the regional system of participatory planning, strengthening local institutions to respond to citizens, improving the quality of life of the inhabitants and the influence of participation in decision-making of the municipal institutions.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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