Reform of the Statutory Participation Law
The Reform of the Statutory Participation Law was a process between 2010 and 2012 in which civil society organizations, institutions and public and private entities met in 13 cities in the country to develop and deliver to the National Government a proposal to modify the law of participation that governed the country since 1994. The initiative came from the Fundación Foro Nacional por Colombia and was hosted by the Ministry of Interior, responsible for setting policies and promoting policy change in topics of citizen participation. Thanks to the negotiation between the participating organizations with the Ministry, a large part of the citizens' proposals were included in the articles that were presented to the Congress of the Republic and passed in 2012. After its approval, the new Law was reviewed by the Constitutional Court and, after some adjustments made in form and substance as requested by the Court, it was sanctioned in July 2015.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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