National Summit "Women and Peace"
The National Summit of Women and Peace was held in Bogota, Colombia. It was an initiative of civil society organizations working on gender issues, which had the technical support of the United Nations System in Colombia under the leadership of UN Women, and was supported by the development cooperation systems of Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Spain. The Summit's purpose was to build an agenda for peacebuilding with gender perspective and women's participation, and to discuss the process of endorsement, implementation and verification of the agreements reached at the Havana Talks between the National Government and the FARC. Participants included women from feminist, human rights, peasant, victims, Afro-descendant indigenous, youth and student organizations, environmentalists, LBTI population, national and territorial peace initiatives, local leaders, representatives of churches, educational and cultural sector organizations, political parties, academia, universities, trade unions and, the media, community-based organizations, departmental and municipal roundtables and advisory councils. The participants were from 30 out of the 32 departments of the country.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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