Citizen Agenda for the Future of Ecuador
The Citizen Agenda for the Future of Ecuador was drafter by the Convergence Table, a space that brings together representatives and delegates of civil society organizations, who, after eight months of work, developed and presented a series of strategic proposals related to health, education, women's rights, social security, citizen security, democratic institutions, and freedom of expression. This was accomplished within the framework of the Ecuadorian electoral process of 2017. The presentation of those proposals took place in September 2016 on the occasion of an international forum organized in Quito. Among the organizations that participated in this project are: Ethical Pact (Citizen Participation), Social Contract for Education, Platform for Health and Life, We for Democracy, National Union of Journalists, Network of Social Organizations of Guayaquil (Span. AROG), and the Social Security and Employment Boards, promoted by the Esquel Foundation. After presenting the identified lines of work, the Convergence Board sought to generate a public debate around its proposals with the candidates who will participate in the upcoming elections. It is estimated that about 50 representatives of civil society participated of the experience. Since 2016, the Convergence Board has continued this format of citizen participation to position key issues on the political agenda in Ecuador, the most recent dialogue took place in 2019 with a workshop on political reforms for the Democracy Code.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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