Uruguay

Working Group for Citizen Participation

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2016 – 2018
Name of organization in charge: UNESCOAgencia de Gobierno electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento de Uruguay (AGESIC)
Type of organization in charge: government international organization
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

The Working Group for Citizen Participation was a collective space created within the framework of the 2nd Open Government Action Plan. This group was in charge of advancing in the fulfillment of commitment nr. 1.1.: "Strengthening participatory culture in Uruguay" of said plan. To this end, it was convened by the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC), inviting representatives of: Ministry of Social Development (MIDES), National Institute of Youth (INJU), Office of Planning and Budget (OPP), Municipality of Montevideo, Secretariat of Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic (SDH), Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment (MVOTMA), Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic (UdelaR), the organization Everyday Woman representing the Open Government Network. It also had the support of UNICEF. One of the main actions initiated by this Working Group was the creation of the so-called "Citizen Participation Catalog", a website that brings together participation experiences from across the country.

Institutional design

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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: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation