Eight levels of governance in Colombia
As part of a Civil Society Participation Project, civil society activists and researchers used the powercube in Colombia to look at levels of participation which they saw as relevant to their issues. They identified eight levels of governance that were important to explore.
More Levels
Places should be defined to your context. In a Colombia, civil society members saw eight levels that needed to be examined – nuancing the supra-national (global), national, and sub-national (local) categories:
International
National
Departmental
Sub-regional
Municipal
Communal
Vereda/barrio
Comunitarian
This example is from the Colombia Country Report ‘Assessing Civil Society Participation’ (page 67) by Jenny Pearce and Gloria Velaas (supported in-country by Cordaid, Hivos, Novib and Plan Netherlands), CFP evaluation series 2003-2006: no. 4 September 2005.
