Public Hearings to Reform the Civil Code
The Public Hearings for the Reform of the Civil Code took place at the provincial level throughout the country and hearings were also held in the National Congress. The participants, representatives of civil organizations and interested individuals who had previously signed up to participate, shared their perspectives on the initiative of the project for the Reform, Updating and Unification of the National Civil and Commercial Codes. Some of the topics discussed in the debates involved assisted human reproduction, divorce, community property regime of indigenous peoples, information regarding medical treatments, consumer rights, etc.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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