Agreement for a Democratic Security Policy
The Agreement for a Democratic Security Policy emerged from the initiative of a multisectorial and multi-party alliance, self-convened to denounce, demand and propose measures that provide more effective solutions to the problem of insecurity, from a human rights perspective, respectful of the rights and freedoms of citizens. This proposal arises in a conjuncture in which different organizations of civil society had manifested themselves in diverse occasions and by different means in repudiation to the repressive policies, to the use of the violence and to the excess of faculties relegated to the police forces. The agreement focuses on working together with ministries and police authorities to strengthen the institutionality of the police forces through dialogue and a civilian leadership of citizen security, giving a leading role to communities and strengthening transparency and access to information of the processes in criminal matters. From this Agreement also came a document with ten points included in an agenda aimed at influencing the structure and public policies of security, presented to the Congress of the Nation.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- 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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