Educational Debate
The National Administration of Public Education (ANEP) and the Universidad de la República (UdelaR) convened an Education Debate in 2005. It integrated multiple spaces of participation: for support in the Organization, the Educational Debate Organizing Committee (CODE) created Zonal and Departmental Commissions that became 16 Departmental Commissions, 18 Zonal Commissions in Montevideo, 9 in Canelones and 4 in Colonia. In addition, a general call for citizens was issued, as the "Call for Education Debate", which was broadcast on April 4, 2005. Based on this structure, two types of citizen participation were created: the Territorial Assemblies, which were Convened and organized by the Zonal and Departmental Commissions, and the Sectorial Meetings with organizations and institutions that at the local level were convened by these Commissions and at the national level by CODE. In total there were 713 Territorial Assemblies with a participation of 19 070 people in total. In the sectorial meetings, 157 organizations participated, together with assemblies and meetings throughout the education system. In addition, through an email box and the website, 410 documents, 257 groups and 153 personal were received. The entire process culminated in the "National Congress of Education". It was constituted by delegates of the Territorial Assemblies, also all the organizations that sent contributions to the Educational Debate, which led to 1960 delegates qualified for participation in the National Congress. The results of the entire process were published in 2007 by the Organizing Committee, including information on the different stages of participation. The process was considered as an input for a new education law, which was created in 2008 (Law No. 18.437).
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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