Wangki Indigenous Women Assembly
The Wangki Indigenous Women Assembly is an annual forum in which women from different indigenous communities from the Wangki River region participate in discussing public issues among themselves and with representatives from their autonomous governments, and from the Nicaraguan State. The forum has been coordinated since 2008 by the organization Wangki Tangni which works with dozens of communities along the Coco or Wangki River, close to the border with Honduras. The assembly is organized every year around a certain topic, which depends on the interest and needs of the communities that participate. This topic is addressed in several themed tables in which national and international civil society organizations, as well as public institutions sometimes participate as interlocutors. The objective of these assemblies is to promote the involvement of indigenous women in public and political affairs, as well as to position public policy problems before competent entities and decision makers.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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