Argentina

Human Rights Organizations Directorate 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: unknown
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Human Rights Organizations Directorate of the Public Entity Space for Memory and for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights was created in 2008 by National Law No. 26,415.The Directorate is made up of 15 representatives of non-governmental organizations that focus their work on Human Rights. The Directorate advises the Executive Branch of the Public Entity Space for Memory and for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights in the activities the latter carries out for the management of the memorial site located on the property occupied by the former Army?s school of mechanics (Span. ESMA) and other adjoining units, in which a detention, torture and extermination centre operated during the last military dictatorship. The Board of Directors proposes plans and programs to the Executive Body of the Public Entity Space for Memory and for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, issues an opinion on the processes of contracting services carried out by the executive body and can make suggestions regarding the institutional budget.

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 non-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