Agreements for Prosperity
To meet the citizen participation goals of the 2010-2014 Government Plan of President Juan Manuel Santos, the Agreements for Prosperity were designed with the objective of achieving social cohesion and governance, all the while boosting the development of regions within different sectors. The Agreements for Prosperity consisted of dialogue exercises carried out across different regions of the country. Each agreement was developed around a specific administrative sector and had to be led by the ministry or entities in charge of that sector. The exercises invited people from the community who had a direct relationship with the subject or the sector in question. In this way it was hoped that, through the massive participation of the people involved, it would be possible to build a common agenda based on different perspectives and find creative solutions to the problems - finally proposing concrete actions to bring dynamism to the sector and the region in order to build community and social cohesion. The Agreements succeeded in improving the visibility of the President's processes vis-à-vis the citizens, as well as finding a balance between the role of government and the commitment of local communities in solving problems.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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