National Council for Economic and Social Planning (CONPES)
The National Council for Economic and Social Planning (CONPES, acronym in Spanish) was created in 1999 through Decree No. 15, and modified in 2002 by Decree No. 16, and in 2007 by Decree No. 113. The Council is composed of representatives of governmental agencies, autonomous regions, business organizations, labor unions, political parties, universities and civil society organizations. The Decree in 2002 eliminated the representation of governmental agencies in the Council, with the exception of the head of the Executive Branch, who chairs it. The Decree issued in 2007 incorporated representatives from the Cabinet of Citizen Power, the Departmental Development Councils and the Regional Economic and Social Planning Councils. The purpose of CONPES is to assist the Executive Branch in the formulation of the country's Economic and Social Policy, making proposals and monitoring existing policies.
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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