Interreligious Advisory Council
The Interreligious Advisory Council was created in 2015 within the National Office of Religious Affairs (ONAR), under the Ministry of the General Secretariat of the Presidency (Span. Segpres). It is made up of representatives of the various faiths represented in the country, including: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Baha'is and Orthodox. The council aims at being a forum which contributes to the understanding between religious institutions, religious people, and civil society in general. One of its achievements was the development of a Code of Ethics for Dialogue in Democratic Coexistence, which contains proposals in areas such as education, probity, transparency, media and environment, which were presented to the Ministry of the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The Council was dissolved in 2020.
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
- single
- 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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