National Consultation to identify priorities regarding health and ethnicity
The "National Consultation to identify priorities regarding health and ethnicity? was convened by the Ministry of Health of Panama and the Pan American Health Organization. Indigenous and Afro-descendant groups from Panama were invited to participate. The purpose of the meeting was allowing the government to collect information on the challenges that these groups face in terms of health and ethnicity, and use it as an input while designing public policies that respond to those challenges. The meeting was held in two days and was coordinated by the Directorate of Indigenous Health Affairs of the Panamanian Ministry of Health. Among the participants were representatives of the Ngäbe Buglé, Emberá Wounaan, Guna and Brí Brí communities; the Ngäbe Association of Agents of Natural Traditional Health, the Group of Women of the Community of Soloy, the collective Indigenous Women of Panama, the Network of young Emberá Wounaan, the group Black Panamanian Organizations, the Forum of Afro descendant Organizations of Panama, the Organization of Voices of Afro-descendant Women of Panama and the Organization Dejando Huellas, as well as local leaders from various regions.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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