Dialogue Table for Health and Nutrition
The Dialogue Table for Health and Nutrition was held within the framework of the National Agreement on the Implementation of Social Spending for Poverty Reduction, which held four different dialogue panels. In it, representatives from more than 20 civil society organizations and the education sector held discussions and meetings with government officials about health and nutrition issues. Following an analysis of the available progress reports (especially those on compliance with the Peace Accords and the Millennium Development Goals), certain imminent problems and possible solutions were agreed upon with the Ministry of Health. The different organizations decided to give priority to three lines of consensus and action: chronic malnutrition, maternal mortality, and sexually transmitted infections, across 41 municipalities of the country. From these starting points, actions and budgets were agreed upon in the short, medium and long term. In addition, the formation of two commissions to follow-up and provide technical support to the Agreements were also agreed on.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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