Uruguay

National Meetings of Family Agricultural Production

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2007 – 2014
Name of organization in charge: Agricultura y PescaMinisterio de Ganadería
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: national

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: yes

At the initiative of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, three National Meetings of Family and Agricultural Production took place in 2007, 2009 and 2014. Rural producers and wage earners from all over the country met to deliberate about issues of agricultural and rural development policies such as: access to land, financing, marketing, but also questions about social organization and participation. All this was discussed within the framework of development policies and welfare redistribution, with the aim of strengthening political representation and the influencing capacity of the public upon public policies. In the second and third meetings, the aim was to analyze the policies and actions carried out by the Ministry during the last 5 years, to generate new inputs from their evaluation. The meetings were attended by between 600 and 800 people, including State representatives, experts, professionals and students linked to the topic.

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: sporadic
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding 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