Departmental and District Boards of Education
The Departmental and District Boards of Education are government advisory bodies at the territorial (departmental or district) level, which have the function of planning, designing, evaluating and monitoring educational policies at the territorial level. These Boards work in coordination with the National Board of Education and the Municipal Boards of Education, to be consultants to the Ministry of National Education and achieve a development of educational policies that integrate all territorial levels of the country. These Boards were created in 1994 when the General Law on Education was issued and are composed of the corresponding Governor or Mayor, the Secretaries and Directors of Government that influence educational policies, representatives of educators and teachers, representatives of ethnic communities and a representative of the manufacturing sector at the territorial level that corresponds to them.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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