Intersectoral Dialogue Table for Economic and Social Development
The "Intersectoral Dialogue Table for Economic and Social Development" (Span. MIDDES) was an initiative for citizen participation in which different sectors of Guatemalan society met with the Government to define an Economic Growth and Social Development Agenda with a long-term vision, starting from an analysis of the socio-economic situation of the country. The proposal was published in 2003; its main objective was the fulfillment of one of the commitments from the Peace Accords through poverty reduction and human development. It was agreed that in order to achieve this objective, it would be necessary to restructure the national budget, to implement a program of economic reactivation, and to modernize the State. The suggestions from this proposal were then taken into account for the implementation of the National Agenda for Competitiveness 2005-2015, and also provided input for the National Plan for Long-Term Cultural Development (2005). Likewise, the Intersectorial Board initiated a process of social auditing for the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the administration of State resources. 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
- 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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