Federal Economic and Social Council
The Federal Economic and Social Council (Span. COFES) is an platform for dialogue that brings together representatives of provincial and local Economic and Social Councils, with the purpose of exchanging perspectives and establishing national policy priorities that should be addressed to face Argentina?s social and economic challenges. The Council is committed to increasing the participation of civil society following a federal perspective, focused on the search for consensus on issues that cross the interests of the Councils. The Council expects these consensuses to influence the design of policies. Another of its goals is to institutionalize citizen participation, for which the Council elaborated a draft bill which intends to grant COFES institutional character at the national level.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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