Intersectorial Dialogue Table on Rural Development
The Intersectorial Dialogue Table on Rural Development was the meeting point between different peasant, private stakeholder, academic and international organizations. The objective of this participatory initiative was the institutionalization of an agrarian policy in the country. However, while peasant organizations focused on the problem of access to land property, other organizations (especially the private sector) refused to discuss this issue and concentrated on a rural development policy in line with globalization. Some organizations such as MINUGUA (United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala) and the Guatemala Forum supported and moderated the dialogue, drafting the resulting documents, such as "The Debate on Rural Development Policy in Guatemala: Progress between October 2000 and April 2002" and "The Strategy to Formulate a National Policy for Consensual Rural Development". Despite the efforts of these organizations, and even though the discussion regarding access to the land was dismissed, the dialogue was suspended in 2013 without having reached any consensus. This participatory initiative is part of a series of six intersectorial working groups created in 2002 during the Guatemala Consultative Group Meeting in Washington ? a meeting of national and international representatives who supported the process of national reconciliation. These dialogue tables were spaces for deliberation and consensus, which gave rise to public policies and initiatives that supported the implementation of the commitments of the Peace Accords.
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
- 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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