National Students' Table
The National Students' Table (Span. Mesa Amplia Nacional Estudiantil - MANE) was created by students of higher education institutions in 2011, as part of the protests and mobilizations against the higher education reform as dictated by Law Nr. 30 of 1992. The main objections of students to such reform, presented by The National Government with the leadership of the Ministry of Education, were related to privatization and indebtedness to access higher education. As a protest, students from the vast majority of public and private universities conducted multiple student strikes that lasted for about a month, with the support of different student organizations and groups and unions. Finally, the Government agreed to withdraw from Congress the bill that promoted the reform. Next, the university students gathered in the National Students' Table MANE to work on an alternative proposal to the bill to improve the quality of education in the country, based on a discussion with all sectors, including the Government. In 2014, MANE resurfaced to give its considerations on the new proposal of the Government and the Ministry of Education in relation to the higher education, called "Agreement for Higher Education 2034".
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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