Colombia

Unit for the Search of Missing Persons in the Context and due to the Armed Conflict (UBPD)

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2017 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Sistema Integral de Verdad Justicia Reparación y No Repetición (SIVJRNR)
Type of organization in charge: government
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 Unit for the Search of Missing Persons in the Context and due to the Armed Conflict (span. UBPD) is one of the collective bodies that make up the tripartite structure of Colombia's Comprehensive System for Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition (span. SIVJRNR). The System was created as a result of the peace processes, and in particular of the Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace, signed between the national government of Colombia and the FARC guerrilla movements. In particular, the UBPD is an entity of a humanitarian nature and independent from the other powers of the State, composed of government representatives, public servants, and citizen representatives of the National Board of Victims, as well as other civic organizations of victims, relatives and survivors of violence. Its objective is to coordinate humanitarian actions to search for missing persons in the context and due to the armed conflict, or to identify and locate citizens presumed dead.

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: embedded in the constitution/legislation
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a 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