Contributions for a New, Inclusive, and Solidary Costa Rica
"Contributions for a New, Inclusive, and Solidary Costa Rica" was a process of debate conducted by a group of citizens who act in the social, productive, academic-intellectual and political-partisan fields. During almost 15 months, this space held bi-weekly reunions, developing a process of reflection about the current state of the country - the product of twenty years of public policies inspired by the so-called Washington Consensus, with highly negative results that include the reduction of the middle class, growing poverty and social inequality, wealth concentration, wage diminishing and high inflation rates, rampant corruption, the deterioration of institutions, a sustained deterioration of ecosystems, and the loss of faith in political action from the side of society, among other difficult situations. The group of Costa Ricans who participated in this civic exercise reflected the richness and diversity of the country's society. It consisted of entrepreneurs, academics, political leaders, trade unionists and cooperatives, students, community leaders, feminists, and farmers. This process of deliberation resulted in the publication of report under the title "Contributions for a New Inclusive and Solidary Costa Rica".
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
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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