Honduras

Directive Council of the National Risk Management System

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2009 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Presidencia de la República
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: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Directive Council of the National Risk Management System is a participatory body of the National Risk Management System, which is responsible for guiding public policies, strategic plans and the legal instruments necessary to achieve the incorporation of risk management within national and development projects. It also receives, analyzes and executes the proposals of the consultation committees, which are related to the policies, normative strategies and concrete actions regarding Risk Management in the country. The Council is chaired by the President of the Republic and composed of representatives of different state secretariats, the National Congress, the association of municipalities of Honduras, private enterprises, worker and peasant organizations, universities, civil society, and a representative of the National Bureau of incidence for Risk Management. By 2016, the Council had held meetings to discuss and approve of the National Comprehensive Risk Management Plan, and to analyze the current issues related to the institutional scope of the Permanent Commission on Contingency (COPECO), as well as the progress in the Drought Emergency Management Plan.

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 private stakeholders
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