Women's Special Instance for a Gender Approach in Peace
The Women's Special Instance for a Gender Approach in Peace was created by the Commission in charge of monitoring and conducting the implementation of the Peace Accords, with the aim of generating a space for debate and promotion of the gender approach in the processes of the Agreement. The Special Instance is a collegiate body with 16 women representatives who are selected and designated bz territorial organizations, groups of victims of the armed conflict, national organizations for peace, and LGBT + groups. They serve the Special Instance for a period of 2 years. The body's functions include: giving recommendations and guidelines for action to the Commission, following up on the implementation of the gender, intersectional and women's rights approach, maintaining spaces for dialogue with organizations and with national and international institutions that accompany the Agreement.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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