Grand National Dialogue
The Grand National Dialogue is an initiative created to strengthen transparency and combat corruption and impunity in Honduras. In the framework of the Government's proposal to create the Comprehensive Honduran System to Combat Impunity and Corruption (Span. SIHCIC), and with the aim of socializing the issue and understanding the opinion of the population, this innovation implemented socialization rounds with more than 20 sectors. The different stakeholders included academics, labor unions, peasant groups, private companies, the Honduran National Federation of Farmers (Span. FENAGH), the media, local governments, diplomatic corps, and also the Organization of American States (OAS). Furthermore, a web page was put in place so that citizens could participate by commenting on the Grand National Dialogue. However, given the high levels of corruption in the country, civil society organizations advocated for an international commission instead of one made of national organizations. As a response, the OAS lent its support to the government and established the Mission to Support Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Span. MACCIH), which led to the failure of the Comprehensive Honduran System to Combat Impunity and Corruption (SIHCIC).
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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