Colombia

Departmental Culture Councils

The Departmental Culture Councils are participation spaces of the National System of Culture, which was created by the general law of culture in 1997 and seeks to enable cultural development and access to the community of cultural goods and services. These councils seek to generate dialogue and coordination between civil society and departmental public entities to advise the departmental government on the formulation, execution and evaluation of policies, plans and projects with regards to culture and in the planning of cultural processes. The National Council of Culture has representatives from both the departmental and national governments, and from the communities, productive sectors, associations, NGOs and networks in the cultural sector, as well as from the education sector and indigenous communities. It also has a representative from the Municipal Culture Councils of the respective department, which are also components of the National Culture System as organizations for participation.

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
embedded in the constitution/legislation 
Frequency
regular
Mode of selection of participants
restricted 
Type of participants
citizens civil society private stakeholders  
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

Sources

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