Boards of Security, Citizenship and Gender
The pressure for the creation of the Boards of Security, Citizenship and Gender began in 2005, and since then civil society organizations have been trying to engage in a closer and more coherent dialogue with the Dominican government on issues of social insecurity, particularly regarding the issues of violence, women's rights and community development. Up to 2011, two seminars and five open forums were held to define the problems and design the institutionalized means to address and solve those problems. Decree 121-13, signed by President Danilo Medina Sánchez in 2013, formalized the creation of several premises and a national working group on security, citizenship and gender issues. The groups are composed of a representative of the Ministry of Interior, the mayor, the Ministry of Public Affairs, the police, the governor, two representatives of civil society and non-governmental organizations. The national working group receives quarterly reviews of local groups, reports on implementation stages and citizen participation in the process. At both levels, the groups are - among other functions - in charge of coordinating and recommending strategies for the prevention of social insecurity, supporting security policies, soliciting and supporting citizen participation as well as the formulation of policies that support inclusion.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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