National Dialogue on HIV and Human Rights
Panama´s National Dialogue on HIV and Human Rights was held in 2011 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and was attended by 85 public institutions and non-governmental organizations. This dialogue was also carried out in other Latin American countries following a standardized methodology created by the UNDP. This methodology allowed participants to present suggestions to improve the quality of life of people with HIV. The objective of this participatory space was to agree on concrete actions that favor adequate legal environments for the protection and promotion of the rights of people with HIV, as well as mechanisms of enforceability and sanctions. The national dialogue was considered the basis for the amendments done to the Law 3 on sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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