Popular Consultation of La Concordia
The Popular Consultation of La Concordia had as its purpose to decide which province La Concorida would belong to. The Consultation was held in 2012 and was framed within the provisions of the Constitution of Ecuador. On this issue more than 23 000 people voted whether the Municipality of La Concordia should belong to the Province of Santo Domingo de las Tsachilas or the Province of Esmeraldas.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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