National Coordination Council for Development
The National Coordination Council for Development (Span. CCND) is a consultative body for all sectors of Panamanian society. It is responsible for verifying the progress and compliance of the agreements and goals of the "National Agreement for Development" dialogue process, which set out long-term strategic objectives to transform Panama into a more democratic, equitable and prosperous society, within the context of the widening of the Panama Canal. The following are members of the council: the National Councils of Workers, Private Enterprise, Lawyers and other professionals, organizations promoting social development, democracy and human rights, Indigenous People, Black People, universities, churches, and local governments, among others.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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