Deliberative Dialogue on Water and Sanitation in Guatemala
The Deliberative Dialogue on Water and Sanitation in Guatemala was carried out during 2011 by representatives of different educational, governmental and civil society organizations in Guatemala. This intersectorial dialogue was conducted with the goal of proposing water policies aimed at guaranteeing human rights and fostering good governance. After a process of technical deliberation, a space was created to deal with the social aspects of water governance. The dynamics of the dialogue were carried out through seven phases: the distribution of an executive summary, the presentation of the policy brief, the presentation of the participants, the organization of three working groups, the group discussion, the writing of conclusions, and the declaration of commitments.
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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