Panama 2000 Meetings (Coronados I, II, III and IV)
The Panama 2000 Meetings were dialogue spaces between civil society and government. The focus was on central issues such as the environment as well as social, gender and labor issues. The starting point was the "First Panama Meeting 2000", which sought to legitimize the reasons and administration for the reversion (return to Panama) of the Panama Canal, and establish that its revenues be used in the promotion of national development. At the same time, the Meetings sought to guarantee the rights and working conditions of the employees, to train the necessary Panamanian personnel and to increase the participation of women in all levels of management of the Canal. Political parties, the national government and fourteen representatives from civil society participated.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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