Honduras

National Forum for a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2006 – 2006
Name of organization in charge: La Vía Campesina (Movimiento Campesino Internacional)
Type of organization in charge: international organization
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: yes

The National Forum for a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform and Rural Development was a space created with the aim to engage civil society in the formulation of a public declaration and a plan to follow up the commitments regarding an agrarian reform and rural development mechanisms to combat poverty. The Forum was attended by representatives of peasant organizations, indigenous peoples, Afro-Hondurans, agricultural workers, civil society organizations, solidarity economy networks, non-governmental organizations, national and international cooperation agencies, government institutions, and the civil society. As a result, a public statement was issued outlining the problems caused by the non-implementation of an Agrarian Reform and the need to relaunch a new comprehensive agrarian reform process. Moreover, the peasant movements presented their demands to the government. After the Forum was held, the Honduran peasant movements drafted a bill for an Agrarian Reform. This proposal was presented to the National Congress and approved in full on March 13, 2008.

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: not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: both
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