National Concertation for Development
The National Concertation for Development was held in 2006 to establish agreements generated from a dialogue process which outlined the necessary actions to be implemented in order to achieve a comprehensive development of Panama. At the same time, a Mechanism for the Verification and Monitoring of compliance of the agreements was created. One of the most important results of the Agreement was the approval of the Fiscal Responsibility Law, which established that one-third of the revenues of the Panama Canal will be used for public investment. Likewise, as part of the Agreement, the Citizen Participation Bill and the Decentralization Law were sent to the National Assembly, although its effective date was deferred until 2014.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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