Así Vamos en Salud (lit. This Way in Health)
Así Vamos en Salud (lit. This Way in Health) is a follow-up program to the health sector in Colombia, the product of a joint effort of private organizations and civil society affected by and interested in the health sector. Its purpose is to contribute to improving the health of Colombians through information, analysis and the formulation of public policy proposals collectively structured to address the needs, expectations and perceptions of the population in light of national goals and objectives. In 2002, when the country was in the process of presidential elections, the Santa Fe de Bogotá (a clinic) and Corona foundations joined to motivate the candidates to present their proposals in the health sector. As a result, meetings and documents emerged that showed the need to follow up and accompany the sector in order to keep society informed about the fulfillment of the new government's goals. In this way Así Vamos en Salud was born in 2004, as a follow-up program to the health sector in Colombia. The foundations managed new alliances with other foundations, with universities and with mass media. The purpose of these alliances was to provide information on the development of the sector to both government administrations and citizens and to contribute to the construction and evaluation of public policies.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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