Dialogues for Equity and Social Justice
The Dialogues for Equity and Social Justice is the democratic innovation launched by the National Assembly of Ecuador, which consists of holding open debates on public policy issues and pending legislation before the legislative chamber on issues related to the promotion of social justice and equality connected to the idea of "good living". The purpose of these discussions is to bring the legislative and executive powers closer to society, to gather input to guide State action, and to jointly involve citizens in the construction of "good living" (Span. Buen Vivir). By the end of 2015, more than 300 talks had been held with 160 social organizations in collaboration with 840 local governments. The total participation involved around 160000 people.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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