National Trades Council
The National Trades Council is a forum created by the manufacturing sector, in order to respond to the conditions of internationalization and development in which the Colombian economy and society are undertaking. It is a permanent forum of deliberation composed of 21 trades, each of them with the highest representativeness in their sector. The National Board of Trade generates opinions and takes concrete actions in areas such as economic policy, peace, negotiation of trade agreements, competitiveness, technological and IT development, moralization and the fight against corruption, environment, logistics, infrastructure, social security, education and state and business modernization, and legislative and regulatory initiatives, among others. This is done based on information and technical studies developed by the Council and its members. The Council began to develop in 1991 and was consolidated in 1993, and its creation was based on important principals. The first was because after the constitutional reform of 1991, the need arose for greater union coordination. Likewise, this reform gave rise to the creation of the Council, since the right of association was explicitly stated there. The second reason was the ratification and implementation of the administration of President César Gaviria to open the economy, an issue that had initially been announced from the Administration of President Virgilio Barco and which affected all private activity and required a thorough study of their possible impacts and the coordination required to exercise collective action by the private sector in the face of government decisions on that front.
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
- private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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