Process to create the Economic and Social Council in Costa Rica
The process to create the Economic and Social Council in Costa Rica was initiated through a Forum of Social Dialogue facilitated by the State of the Nation Program in 2004 and 2006 after this Forum consensually elaborated a preliminary bill to create an Economic and Social Council in the country which would operate as a mechanism for consulting society on behalf of the Executive and Legislative branches, in matters of public policy. The proposal was submitted to the Executive Branch, which in turn presented it to the Legislative Assembly as a bill. The Legislative Assembly has taken over and sent the project to the Social Affairs Commission, and social sectors, with the support of the federal government, have tried to establish a common strategy to promote their approval, aware that this initiative can help channel the social conflict by creating a permanent space for institutionalized social dialogue. However, the project was shelved. Faced with this decision, a group of civil society organizations joined their observations and presented a new bill in 2013. By 2016 the bill had not yet been approved.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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