Argentina

Executive Body of the Public Entity Space for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2008 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Ente Público Espacio para la Memoria y para la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

The Executive Branch of the Public Entity Space for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights was created in 2008 by Law 26,415. Its purpose is to manage the property occupied by the former Army?s school of mechanics (Span. ESMA) and other adjoining units, in which a detention and extermination centre operated during the last military dictatorship. The executive body must decide the way in which the site will be used and is in charge of its management. Its goal is to create a space that raises awareness about what has happened there, in order to prevent future human rights violations such as the ones that took place in the former ESMA. The entity is not allowed to use the property for profit. The Executive Body is made up of a representative of the National Executive Power, a representative of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and two members (a main representative and an associate) of the Directory of Human Rights Organizations of the Public Entity Space for Memory and for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights.

Institutional design

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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

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

https://www.espaciomemoria.ar/lugar