National Commission against Discrimination
The National Commission against Discrimination is a governing body in which representatives from civil society participate by analyzing the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by the Panama Government. It is empowered to recommend proposals that incorporate the right to non-discrimination into the State agenda to the Executive Body. It includes: 1) the Ombudsman of the Republic of Panama; 2) the President of the Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly; 3) the Minister of Youth, Women, Children and Family; 4) the President of the Association of Bars and Clubs of the Republic of Panama; 5) three representatives of non-governmental organizations whose purpose is to promote non-discrimination in the country; 6) a representative of the Judicial Branch; and 7) a representative of indigenous peoples.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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