Dialogue Table on Retirement, Disability, and Survivors' Pensions
The Dialogue Table on Retirement, Disability, and Survivors' Pensions was convened by the Government of Costa Rica, which invited representatives of the government, the business sector, unions and cooperatives, to participate in the discussion. The purpose of the round table was to discuss proposals for reforming the pension system. The roundtable was able to reach agreements, some of which were subsequently implemented.
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
- unknown
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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