Dialogue of the Panamanian population for a constitutional reform
The Dialogue of the Panamanian population for a constitutional reform was created in 2020 through an agreement signed between the Ministry of the Presidency of Panama and the UNPD. It seeks to create a participatory process of constitutional reform. The project?s methodology is designed by the UNDP, who acts as project facilitator. Its outcome will be a project of constitutional reform, which will be submitted to the Presidency by the UNDP and shall be discussed afterwards by the country?s National Assembly. Although the methodology is under design, UNDP announced it may combine national and regional deliberative tables (who can, as well, implement surveys to get to know the perspectives of the local population) and online tools, which will allow citizens to post reform proposals.
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
- unknown
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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