Colombia

National Disability Council

The National Disability Council is a consulting, advisory, verification, monitoring and evaluation body of the National Disability System, in which the coordination, planning, consultation, adoption and evaluation of general and sectorial public policies for the disability sector in Colombia must be carried out. The members of the Council come from the ministries and entities in charge of the subjects, as well as citizens representing each of the disability types and those who take care of them. The origin of this Council can be linked to the adoption of the Disability Act of 1997 and within it the constitution of the National Consultative Committee of Persons with Limitation. In 2007, the National Disability System was organized, including the National Disability Council. Although it is not clear from the regulations that this Council has replaced the previously established Consultative Committee, it may be thought that this is because the article establishing the Committee is repealed by the law creating the Council, and it can be seen that the members and functions of the two organizations are similar.

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
Evaluation

Sources

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