Paraguay

Census of Women Deprived of Freedom

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2015 – 2015
Name of organization in charge: Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la Tortura
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Census of Women Deprived of Freedom was conducted in 2015 by the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture (Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la Tortura, MNP), and was designed to provide accurate information on the living conditions of women deprived of liberty in the country. Institutional agreements with universities helped to procure volunteer students to become directly involved in the monitoring objective of the MNP. These volunteers, coming from the psychology, social sciences, law and social work faculties, collaborated on and were trained through fieldwork, carrying out surveys and observations, and processing data. The objective of the research was to generate scientific and updated information on the reality of women deprived of liberty to facilitate the monitoring mission of the MNP. In addition, with the participation of university students, civil society was directly involved in the monitoring process, reinforcing the active role of the university in society. In this case, civil society was involved in the creation of basic knowledge for the design of public policies that responded to the problems of the most vulnerable sectors of society.

Institutional design

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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: restricted
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation