Venezuela

National Bolivarian Curriculum Inquiry

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2013 – 2014
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación (MPPE)
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

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: unknown

The National Bolivarian Curriculum Inquiry consisted of a call to dialogue with the educational community and general society, carried out by the Venezuelan government to implement a new curricular design in the country's schools. There was a first attempt to conduct the consultation in 2013, which took place through the website of the Ministry of Education, but was interrupted while still in process. In 2014, the objective was resumed and two stages of consultation were considered. The first phase consisted of 30 days of consultations through surveys, assemblies and focus groups in the country's 29,000 educational institutions. In a second phase, teachers, directors, trades unions, communes, athletes and other sectors of the country were consulted. The consultation was also open via a web form, a telephone link and mail. The consultation was controversial. Some parents' organizations, civil society and the business world mobilized to reject the government's consultation because they believed that the main ideas of the proposal were designed with political content.

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: single
Mode of selection of participants: both
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