Management Board of the Memory Park
The Management Board for the Memory Park and the Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism is an entity conformed by members of the government and the civil society - which includes representatives from the University of Buenos Aires and from the main Human Rights organizations- that is in charge of the management and procurement of the Memory Park and the Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism. The Board was formally created in 2009 through the enactment of the Law No. 3.078 and it is considered a decentralized area of the Human Rights Undersecretary of the City of Buenos Aires. Among its primary functions, the following stand out: the development, monitoring and updating of the information related to the disappeared and assassinated during the period of State terrorism, as well as managing public policies that promote collective memory. Regarding its operation, the Board is financed by the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and it is managed by an executive director which is proposed by the Board itself and is formally designated by the local Executive Power. The internal affairs are decided by simple majority and the Board members stay in office for three years.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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