Colombia

Departmental / District Disability Committees

The Departmental / District Disability Committees are the regional and district bodies for the coordination, consultation, consolidation, monitoring and verification of the implementation of the Public Disability Policy. These Committees are part of the National Disability System together with the Municipal / Local Disability Committees and the National Disability Council. The respective Mayor or Governor or his / her representative, the representatives of the Secretaries working on related issues, representatives of non-profit organizations of persons with disabilities must be part of the Departmental / District Disability Committees (according to the different types of disability) and a representative of the legal persons that are in charge of their care. Although the Disability Law was created in 1997, it was not until 2007, when the National Disability System was established, that the creation of Disability Committees at the territorial level was indicated, in this case departmentally and of the district, and its regulation was developed in 2012.

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
civil society  
Decisiveness
democratic innovation yields a 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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