Nicaragua

Consultations for the Enhanced Strategy for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2000 – 2001
Name of organization in charge: Poder Ejecutivo Nacional
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local regional

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 Enhanced Strategy for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction (span. ERCERP) is a strategic plan of action that the Nicaraguan government presented to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to have the country considered for inclusion within the Initiative For Highly Indebted Poor Countries (also known as HIPC). To develop this Strategy, the Nicaraguan government first prepared a document, which was discussed with the National Council for Social Economic Planning (span. CONPES). Later, between December 2000 and April 2001, local consultations were held with citizens, civil society organizations, and the private sector in the seven departments and two autonomous regions. Additionally, 16 focus groups were organized in areas of rural and urban poverty. Comments were also received from representatives of the United Nations Program to Development (UNDP), the European Union (EU),the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ation (FAO), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and several other international cooperation agencies. These contributions were incorporated through corrections and reformulations to the original Strategy.

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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: both
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding 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