National Council for Sustainable Development
The National Council for Sustainable Development (CONADES) was created in 1997 by Decree 31, and modified in 2000 by Decree No. 15. It is a forum for the analysis, discussion, evaluation, dissemination, coordination and monitoring of development policies. The Council must promote policies aimed at: integrating economic growth with social equity and environmentally sustainable resource management; promoting greater participation of women in the country's political and economic life; modernizing the State; promoting full respect for the identity, culture and legitimate interests of Indigenous Peoples, their communities and other ethnic minorities; and eradicating and mitigating the causes and effects of poverty. Representatives of government agencies, civil society organizations, the private sector, academia, labor unions and religious organizations participate in the Council.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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