Open Cabinet Council
The Open Cabinet Council was a modality implemented during the second government of Tabaré Vazquez, from 2016 onwards, through which the Cabinet of Ministers of the national executive began to transfer its meetings from the Government Palace in Montevideo to different locations from all over Uruguay. In addition, these meetings began to be held in an open way, inviting citizens to attend it, and opening up the debate for questions and requests. By 2019, more than 70 Open Cabinet meetings were conducted in all of Uruguay's regions, and official sources affirm that more than 80% of the proposals and requests arising from these meetings were fulfilled.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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