"A Reasonable National Agreement" Forum
The "Reasonable National Agreement" Forum was convened by the elected president in 1994, José María Figueres Olsen, to address the fiscal deficit faced by the country. The methodology of the forum was to break down the fiscal problem into two thematic components: a) first, the presentation of a diagnosis on the structural characteristics of the fiscal deficit and an analysis of the current situation of the Costa Rican State; b) the presentation of a governmental proposal that contemplated solutions based on the initial diagnosis. Both phases were followed by multi-sectoral discussions that incorporated representatives of the five sectors invited to the forum: labor, business, intellectual, grassroots organizations and various civil society and government organizations.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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