Autonomous Working Group (Forced and Involuntary Disappearances)
The Autonomous Working Group in the State of Coahuila is a professional and autonomous citizen-led organization. Human rights defenders, academics or experts in the field participate. Public officials do not participate. Its function, under recommendation of the UN, is to follow-up on the compliance of the authorities of Coahuila, in order to guarantee the rights of the disappeared persons and their families.
Institutional design
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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