Dialogue and Consultation System of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In 2014, under the Open Government project, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertook, through Decree 25/014 - System of Dialogue and Consultation (SDC) between the MRREE and the social organizations "to establish a System to democratize foreign policy through different institutional paths and thus make participation and monitoring by citizens possible. The objectives for participation declared in the Decree are wide, and the different mechanisms established include plenary sessions, work in commissions, and forms of consultation and direct participation in person and on the web.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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