Guatemala

National Consultation for the Elaboration of the Plan for the Prevention and Progressive Eradication of Child Labor

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1999 – 1999
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión SocialOrganización Internacional del Trabajo (ILO)Save the Children NoruegaDeutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)Fondo para la Infancia de las Naciones Unidas (UNICEF)
Type of organization in charge: government civil society international organization
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The National Consultation for the Elaboration of the Plan for the Prevention and Progressive Eradication of Child Labor was held in Guatemala in 1999. It consisted of 21 workshops in Guatemala?s departments and 5 in the capital, in which more than 2000 people participated. In the workshops, ideas were shared and proposals were made for the drafting of a national plan, which would then be developed by a technical commission of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and 120 representatives of civil society (elected during the National Consultation). The proposals, opinions and commitments obtained during the Consultation were the basis of the Plan, which had as its central point the promotion of public policies that define joint actions between various sectors of society in order to prevent and eradicate the work of children under 14 years of age, the legal and social protection of workers over the age of 14 who are still minors, and the prevention and eradication of high-risk jobs for minors under the age of 18.

Institutional design

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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: single
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation