Proposal for a strategy to strengthen and consolidate fair trade in Colombia
The Proposal for a strategy to strengthen and consolidate fair trade in Colombia was a process that took place between 2006 and 2008, in which a group of national and international institutions with experience in trade solidarity matters gathered to build a proposal for a fair, ethical and solidary trade strategy. The project also focused on reducing poverty on the premise that this is one of the few alternatives available to small rural producers in developing countries to place the proceeds of their work on the international market. The process culminated in the development of a virtual store with products from the different associations of Colombian producers that joined the project.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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