Participatory Dialogues on Public Health
The Participatory Dialogues on Public Health are a set of meetings between representatives of civil society and the public authority promoted by the Ministry of Health of the Nation in order to know the opinion of the citizens on a particular aspect of health policies: their design, implementation and/or evaluation. These dialogues are framed in the mechanisms of Citizen Participation which are mandatory for all state branches and offices, as established by Law Nr. 20500 on Citizen Participation. Between April and September 2014, more than 3500 people from all regions of the country participated in the15 dialogues promoted by the Ministry of Health.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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