What and what are the Citizen Participation Mechanisms?

The Political Constitution of Colombia enshrines in article 1 and 2 that "Colombia is

a democratic, participatory and pluralist social State of law (...)," which are
"essential purposes of the State: to facilitate the participation of all in the decisions
that they affect them and in the economic, political, administrative and cultural life
of the nation "and in article 40 it states that" every citizen has the right to
participate in the formation, exercise and control of political power "; To comply
with this, there is a series of citizen participation mechanisms which are the tools
that allow exercising the right to participate in collective decisions, generating
changes within the judicial, executive and legislative systems; Law 1757 of 2015
states that the mechanisms of citizen participation are: "the popular and normative
initiative before public corporations, the referendum, the popular consultation, the
revocation of the mandate, the plebiscite and the open council".