Agricultural and Popular Boards for Dialogue and Agreement
The Agricultural and Popular Boards for Interlocution and Agreement (Span. MIA) is a platform for popular organizations and the agricultural sector, which was formed to present to the National Government a list of petitions that collects their demands to resolve their social, economic and political conflicts. It was conceived in the framework of the National Agrarian and Popular Unemployment Act of August 2013, when the organizations proposed the formation of the Board as the entity to initiate the dialogue, to review the petitions and to reach agreements. The National MIA is made up of representatives from 25 departments and organizations representing the interests of the poorest. President Juan Manuel Santos and the spokespersons of the National MIA formalized the installation of the Board by means of an agreement that established a working methodology, the time for dialogue and negotiation of the national list of petitions. The minutes established the agreement and dialogue in each department belonging to the MIA - where the strike was expressed ? to hold dialogue and to establish the relevant requests from each department between the Government and the respective governors with the MIA and other peasant, ethnic and social organizations. In this way, the Departmental MIA were established as a setting for articulation at the departmental level of the agrarian organizations to maintain the dialogue, negotiation and agreement with the national and departmental government, in order to design, construct and implement agrarian policies, built with the direct participation of the popular sectors.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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