Intersectoral Dialogue Table on Indigenous Peoples
The Intersectoral Dialogue Table on Indigenous Peoples is a space for dialogue that arises from the need to address the indigenous issue on the Guatemalan political agenda, in order to achieve the commitments made in the Peace Accords and the Agreement on the Identity and Rights of indigenous peoples. This dialogue, which began in 2002, brought together different parts of civil society: 58 indigenous people?s organizations, political movements, and the private and governmental sectors, and reached a consensus among these stakeholders after a series of periodic meetings (every 15 days). This consensus was transformed into a series of proposals and reforms, published in 2003, which gave life (in 2016) to the proposal by the government, the prosecution and the highest judicial authority of Guatemala to recognize indigenous jurisdiction in the Constitution of the country. This participatory initiative is part of a series of six intersectoral 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
- regular
- 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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