Sectoral Liaison Groups (Disability)
The Sectoral Liaison Groups (Disability) (Span. GES) are the technical body for the construction, coordination and inter-institutional coordination of the plans, projects and programs of the National Disability Council. Its objective is to serve as a liaison between the government and non-governmental organizations to technically support the coordination of the National Disability Plan in relation to aspects of sectorial and intersectorial planning for the development of activities to promote and disseminate the rights of persons with disabilities; for the prevention, habilitation, rehabilitation, education and family, social, labor integration and other aspects that are necessary for the fulfillment of the public policy on disability and social inclusion and the guarantee of the rights of persons with disabilities. The formation of these groups was mentioned initially in Law 361 of the 1997 Disability Law, but its regulation was begun in the year 2000. Later, the groups were reconfirmed in law 1145 of 2007, in which the National System of Disability was organized. At the outset, there were three such groups based on the United Nations Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities in habilitation and rehabilitation, advocacy and prevention and equal opportunities. However, at present this body is acting as a single GES group, and within it has established internal work commissions, in accordance with the provisions of the National Disability Council.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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