Dialogue for the integral transformation of the educational system
The dialogue for the integral transformation of the educational system was a deliberative process that took place in several regions of Panama in 2002. The deliberative tables were organized by the Ministry of Education of Panama, with technical support from the United Nations Program for the Development (UNDP). Citizens, teachers, civic and religious groups, and youth participated in the process. The forums were organized around various thematic tables, for example, administration and investment in education, philosophy and quality of education and profile, training, and performance of the educators. The deliberative tables generated knowledge about the educational reality in the different regions of the country and built consensus that translated into recommendations for the reform of the educational system. Among these consensuses are the progressive decentralization of the educational system, the establishment of educational and evaluation standards, the professionalization of teaching and the incorporation of technological tools. The recommendations that resulted from the Dialogue were taken into account by the Law of Educational Decentralization and 3 presidential candidates promised to include them in their agenda.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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