National Dialogue for Justice Reform in Guatemala
The National Dialogue for Justice Reform in Guatemala is a citizen participation mechanism that has been carried out in three distinct phases over several months. This initiative began through a dialogue campaign in which working groups were created to discuss reforms that strengthen judicial independence and recognize indigenous jurisdiction. In addition, a survey was conducted in which more than 50% of the participants asserted that a constitutional reform in the country was indispensable. Following the regional dialogues, which involved about 3200 people, a national board was also created in which 80 representatives of the government, indigenous peoples, private sector, student organizations and civil society gathered in four groups to discuss reforms. Five months of dialogue gave rise to the Constitutional Reform Document.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- 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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