La Guajira Chooses Well
La Guajira Chooses Well was an initiative of citizen participation promoted by the civil society and the private sector with the objective of supporting informed voting and electoral transparency in the regional elections of 2015. Within the framework of this innovation, 10 spaces of discussion and deliberation were created. These spaces allowed the citizens of the region to delimit the priorities of the civil society's agenda, which were then shared with the candidates. In addition, an information campaign on the candidates and free and transparent elections was carried out through different means of communication. This campaign also included 3 electoral debates.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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