Women Committee of Montevideo
The Women Committee of Montevideo was created in response to civil society concerns raised at the workshop on "Women and Management" at the First Forum on Decentralization and Citizen Participation, held in May 1990 in the context of the recent arrival of the Frente Amplio in Montevideo. It was integrated by women?s movements, women in politics, trade unionists and civil servants. In the first period it did not have sufficient resources but completed work on thematic panels in order to develop policy proposals. With the second Frente Amplio government it became institutionalized, it was located within the Division of Social Promotion of the Department of Decentralization and it was assigned a budget, an office and personnel, with which the participation of the civil society in the Commission was constituted as an advisory council of the Commission. There was also an open discussion space for all the women concerned, called "The Montevideans opine", which served as an input for the work. Among the most important projects of the Commission are the Plan for Equal Opportunities and Rights between Women and Men 2002/2005, the first plan with this focus in Montevideo and Uruguay and the installation of the "Communes for Women", a participatory space and social support center, within which also the Zonal Commissions of the Women were established.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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