National Dialogue on HIV and Human Rights
The National Dialogue on HIV and Human Rights was held in 2013 under the initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of Guatemala. This dialogue was also carried out in other Latin American countries and follows a standardized methodology created by UNDP. Through an open call, the National Dialogue received 34 applications submitted by the civil society. These applications presented specific cases of violation of human rights, good practices and recommendations for issues regarding human rights and people living with HIV, discrimination, sex work, police abuse , access to health, gender identity, among other important topics. These applications were discussed in a plenary where technical support was provided in order to elaborate concrete proposals. It culminated in an open town hall where representatives from the public sector and civil society organizations agreed on concrete actions that favored adequate legal environments for the protection and promotion of the rights of people with HIV, as well as mechanisms of enforceability and sanctions. The National Dialogue was considered an input for the HIV bills proposed by the technical panels of the Legal Network, PEMAR and the Observatory of Human Rights HIV. It also layed the foundations for the creation of the Office on Sexual and Gender Diversity in 2014.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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