Participation in the More Families in Action Program
Participation in the More Families in Action Program was designed so that mothers of families receiving education and nutrition subsidies for their children within the Program can participate in supporting the operation of the Program and socially monitor and follow-up the operation and results of the Program. Families in Action was created in 2001 by the National Government and was the flagship program of the two governments of former president Álvaro Uribe between 2002 and 2010. In the governments of his predecessor, President Juan Manuel Santos, has continued with the program, now called More Families in Action. This Program offers educational subsidies to the poorest families in the country for children under 18 years and in food for children under 7 years. The mothers of these families have been constantly involved in the Program, however, they have found difficulties in the possibility of exercising their role as citizens and participating in the public, while participating in the Program.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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