Honduras

Educational Facilitators

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2014 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Secretaría de Estado en el Despacho de Educación
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: no
Policy Outcome: -

The Educational Facilitators are in charge of implementing the Compulsory Literacy and the Popular Education Campaign. Within the National Plan for Obligatory Literacy, Attention to School Delays, and Popular Education Honduras 2014-2017, this campaign began after the Honduran government declared the literacy of persons over 15 years of age to be of high national interest. The Ministry of Education determined that as part of the Social Education Work, the ninth grade students of the official or private basic education centers, students of the last year of the alternative methods schools, and middle school seniors from official, non-governmental, and private centers would participate as educational facilitators. Likewise, staff regulated by the teacher's statute, employees of the Ministry of Education subject to Civil Service Law, members of civil society, and volunteers in general might participate. Each participant performs a task as educational facilitator that consists in collaborating with adult students in any doubt related to the literacy course book or to support students that are falling behind classes. By 2016 there were about 60,000 students who acted as educational facilitators during 20 consecutive Saturdays.

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: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no 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