Gender Equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean
The creation of the Gender Equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean was agreed upon at the X Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which took place in 2007. The Observatory monitors Latin America?s compliance with international targets regarding gender equality, analyzing the physical, economic and decision-making autonomy of women. This information is made available to governments, with the aim of influencing policy formulation. Additionally, he Observatory provides training to government institutions that request it regarding mechanisms to promote gender equality. In relation to Panama, it disseminates information on the representation of women in politics, access to health care, gender violence, percentage of teenage mothers, paid and unpaid work and laws that promote gender equality.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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