Citizen Training Schools
The Citizen Training Schools are spaces for strengthening the capacities of leaders, managers, promoters, young neighborhood activists and men and women, through which it seeks to encourage participation in decision-making on issues and direct and indirect areas of concern in the construction of communities closer to the wishes of its inhabitants. These schools have been promoted since the year 2010 throughout Ecuador, and have been implemented, for example, by the Mayor of the Metropolitan District of Quito. The purpose of these spaces is to reaffirm that the identity of citizens and the recognition of Democracy as the framework for individual and collective development, based on the knowledge and empowerment of the duties and rights in the paradigm of GOOD LIVING or SUMAK KAWSAY, are embodied in the Constitution. As a result of these procedures, participants should present a practical proposal, based on their context, on any of the topics addressed, for which follow-up and support is provided by each provincial office of the Citizen Participation and Social Control Council. The social impact of the Citizen Training Schools and Exchange of Knowledge and Experiences is expressed in the 87 citizen proposals elaborated by the participants of 19 schools, which refer to different types of mechanisms and spaces of citizen participation, such as: Conformation of Local citizen assemblies, neighborhood committees, and the promotion of systems of participation in decentralized autonomous governments (Span. GAD), among others.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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