Participatory Elaboration of CONPES Documents
The National Council for Economic and Social Policy (span. CONPES) is a body that brings together numerous representatives of the national executive branch and representatives of regional and local governments. This body acts as an advisor to the government in all aspects related to the economic and social direction of the country, and is in charge of preparing national policy guidelines. In recent years, the Council has begun to open participatory stages in the preparation of some of these documents, making working versions of documents available and allowing citizens to send comments by email to be considered in the preparation of the final document. This procedure has been implemented, among others, for the Anti-Corruption Policy and the Intellectual Property Protection Policy document.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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