Special Permament Committee on Women's Issues
The Special Permanent Committee on Women's Issues was created as part of the commitment resulting from Costa Rica's accession to the Beijing Platform for Action (1995), in which it was agreed to create the necessary governmental mechanisms to facilitate the development and protection of the human rights of women. It began its functions in December 1999. It is a legislative body that understands and dictates bills that relate to or affect the situation of women. Since its inception, the Women's Commission has sought to integrate all external sectors of parliament (public or private) which are fighting for women's equal rights in the process of legislation or in the discussion of political control.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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