National Dialogue Tables
The National Dialogue Tables are participatory dialogues with various social, economic and political stakeholders, implemented by the Government of Costa Rica during the years 2014-2018. These dialogues were conceived as a systematic mechanism for exchanging initiatives, setting agendas and promoting agreements for the elaboration of public policies and government actions, both from the Executive and Legislative branches, in order to contribute to the common good and the improvement of living conditions for all the inhabitants of the country. This National Dialogue is established in three spaces: a space for political dialogue, a space for productive dialogue, and a space for social dialogue. Likewise, a Coordination Committee is established for the three spaces, and it guides the process, defines basic priorities, leads the conversation, provides feedback and coordinates the conclusions that emerge from each of them. By 2016 there were 4 Dialogue Tables in progress: Open Data Dialogue; Guacanaste Working Table for the Improvement of the Quality of Life, Productive Development and Infrastructure and Employment Promotion Table; Dialogue Table for the Strengthening the National Technical Secretariat of the Environment (SETENA); and the, National Dialogue Table on Electricity.
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
- sporadic
- 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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