Workshops Building our Country
The workshops Building our Country (Span. Talleres Construyendo País) were an initiative of the Presidency of Colombia, which had the purpose of making the President more familiar with the concerns of the citizens. The workshops were held at the regional level throughout the country. The participants were citizens, who communicated the main needs and desires they had for their region. Spokespersons were selected by lot from among the participants of the regional workshops, who met the President and informed him about the main issues discussed at the workshop. These meetings resulted in governmental commitments, whose fulfillment is supposed to be verified by the Presidential Advisor's Office for the Regions.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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