Society in Action - Civil society organizations: Scenario and Challenges
Society in Action is a project of the Center for Public Policy of the Universidad Católica and Chile Más Hoy Foundation and receives the collaboration of various stakeholders linked to civil society organizations. The strategic objective of the project is to highlight the importance of civil society in Chile, through the collection of evidence, data and indicators to observe and position it as a topic of public interest. This project is based on the conceptual and methodological framework developed by Johns Hopkins University, which has been applied since 1990 in similar studies in 45 countries around the world, six of which are in Latin America. The specific objectives of the first stage of the project are: to construct a synthetic measure of the valuation of civil society in Chile on a periodic basis; measure the magnitude of the quantitative contribution of civil society to Chile (% GDP, employment, volunteers, etc.); and to analyze the institutional factors that stimulate or restrict the development of non-profit institutions. In turn, for later stages of the project the following specific objectives are considered: quantification of the contribution of the civil society in a specific area and to contrast it, as much as possible, with the state?s contribution; and, to design and implement a "Civil Society Observatory" to monitor issues of interest to these organizations.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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