Educational Excellence Fund
The Fund for Excellence in Education and Research (FEEI) emerged as a proposal from civil society, and was introduced in 2012 by Law No. 4758. This law states that the Paraguayan State (the constituent) is supposed to transfer a portion of the fund's resources to the Financial Agency for Development (AFD), which retains the money. An Inter-Institutional Council made up of nine members (three Ministers, the president of the National Council of Science and Technology and four members of civil society proposed by CONACYT and appointed by presidential decree) is then in charge of deciding over the disbursement of the funds. For this purpose, this Council validates the projects seeking FEEI funding and evaluates their subsequent implementation. If there are delays in the implementation or if the latter is judged unsatisfactory by the Council, it can sanction the institution designated for its execution, entrusting the project to another organization.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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