National Plan for Racial Equity and for Afro-descendants
The National Plan for Racial Equity and for Afro-descendants was an initiative of the Department of Afro-descendants in the Human Rights Division of the National Directorate for Socio-cultural Promotion of the Ministry of Social Development (span. MIDES). The purpose of the Plan is to guide public policies to promote the economic, social and political inclusion of Afro-descendants at the national level, as well as to incorporate the ethnic-racial perspective in state policies, programs and projects. To create this plan with goals and measures to be adopted, a deliberative and participatory process was convened with civil society organizations and government entities representing Afro-descendant groups in Uruguay. Six regional territorial assemblies were held during the months of October and November 2019 in Salto, Río Negro, Rivera, Lavalleja, Canelones and Montevideo. In addition, interviews were conducted with referents and heads of civil society organizations and focus groups were convened with the members of the Civil Society Consultative Council formed by Law 19,122, of the Working Group on Racial Equity Policies created by Presidential Resolution DS / 181 , and other institutional representatives with experience in the area.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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