Prior Consultation of indigenous peoples on the National Policy on Cultural Rights and the drafting a General Law on Cultural Rights
Between 2012 and 2013, the Ministry of Culture and Youth (MCJ) carried out a consultation process with the 24 indigenous territories of Costa Rica. The objective of the consultation was the elaboration of the National Policy of Cultural Rights and the proposal of a draft General Law on Cultural Rights. The process was organized in four stages: i. Information stage; ii. Consultation stage on the consultation; iii. Consultation stage; and, iv. National Indigenous Forum. Over 3000 people participated throughout the process. The various stages of the consultation process were successfully carried out resulting in the presidential approval of the first National Policy on Cultural Rights of Costa Rica. This policy will be in force from 2014 to 2023 and will guide the government's plans and the strategic actions of the Ministry of Culture and Youth during this period.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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