National Dialogue
The National Dialogue was a deliberative table installed in 2018 by the National Government, as an attempt to put an end to the violent outbreak that took place when the government used repressive force against social protests motivated by a reform to the social security system in the country. The government summoned fourteen representatives of civil society organizations, academia and the private sector, and designated the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference in the role of mediator. The National Dialogue was inaugurated the 16th of May, 2018, but the Episcopal Conference declared its suspension a week after given that there were no signs of a reachable agreement in sight. In mid-June the Dialogue was resumed, yet cancelled again on July 10th after a series of violent acts were committed against members of the religious congregation.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- unknown
- Co-Governance
- yes
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