Quito Neighborhood Assemblies
The Quito Neighborhood Assemblies are part of the Metropolitan System of Citizen Participation and have the objective of promoting citizen participation in the city's neighborhoods. The assemblies are made up of a governing body with a president, vice-president, coordinator and secretary. The assemblies must have a minimum of 30 members. Any resident may participate in the assembly. To date there are 130 active assemblies in Quito.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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