Educational Forums
The Educational forums are meetings to be held each year at the municipal, district, departmental and national level in order to reflect on the state of education and make recommendations to the respective educational authorities for the improvement and coverage of education. In the capital district of Bogotá they are also developed at the community level across the 20 localities in which the city is divided. The forums begin in the first quarter of the year in each of the municipalities and districts, so that their recommendations are studied later by the departmental forums and later at the National Forum. They were created in 1994 when the General Law of Education was issued and are organized annually by the respective territorial and national authorities. Although at each territorial level they are made up of different members according to regional contexts, all must bring together the educational communities within their jurisdiction and the members are appointed as representatives by their respective educational organizations. Although there have been years in which its implementation has been affected by the lack of sufficient attention on its importance, in recent years this situation has improved and the participation of members of the education sector has substantially increased.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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