Uruguay

Tripartite Commission for Equal Opportunities and Treatment in Employment

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1997 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (MTSS)
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

The Tripartite Commission for Equal Opportunities and Treatment in Employment emerged in 1997 in several countries following a model of the International Employment Organization (ILO). In Uruguay, the commission was constituted primarily by replacing an interagency commission provided for by law but without the participation of the worker and business sector. In 1999, it was institutionalized by a decree of the executive branch (No. 365/999), establishing citizen participation through the Inter-union Plenary of Workers (PIT-CNT), Business Chambers (COSUPEM) and other institutions such as the National Institute of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), which is organized by the Commission, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. Among its tasks is to advise the MTSS on gender, to promote existing laws and programs for their better implementation, as well as to create new ones. In this way they have carried out projects like the First National Plan of Equality in Employment, proposed and worked on several law bills and established different training programs and procedures for attention to denunciations of sexual and moral harassment. The commission is also active in regional integration issues promoting the inclusion of specific clauses and commitments in the various socio-labor bodies of MERCOSUR.

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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: civil society private stakeholders
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