Honduras

National Council for the Protection of Honduran Migrants

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2014 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Secretaría de Estado en el Despacho de Relaciones Exteriores
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: partial
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The National Council for the Protection of the Honduran Migrant is a consultative and advisory body attached to the Secretariat of State in the Office of Foreign Affairs. Among the functions established by law is the formulation of proposals, recommendations and preliminary drafts for the application of the Law for the Protection of Honduran Migrants and their Families. The Council is composed of representatives of five State Secretariats, the National Commissioner for Human Rights, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the National Registry of Persons, a representative of non-governmental organizations with programs on migration, children and youth, human rights, and women, a representative of the churches with programs for migrants and/or returnees, the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise and the Confederation of workers. By 2016, the Council took actions to establish identity and exchange programs and transnational links with Honduran communities abroad. It also seeks to create and strengthen migrant communities within and outside the region.

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 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