Dominican Republic

Participatory Tables of the Citizen Forum

City/State/Region: Santo Domingo
Begin – End: 2010 – 2010
Name of organization in charge: Foro Ciudadano
Type of organization in charge: civil society
Level: local national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Participatory Tables were created by the Citizen Forum, a network of civil society organizations that brings together various organizations with the goal of transforming the Dominican society into a more inclusive and egalitarian one. As part of the Forum's work, the organization has held five participatory roundtables, bringing together relevant civil society organizations and developing policy recommendations with their participation. The themes and participants are grouped around gender issues (together with the Women and Health Collective), social policies and equality (Juan Montalvo Center), transparency (Citizen Participation), migration (Jesuit Center for Refugees and Migrants) and justice (FINJUS). The round tables were held in Santo Domingo. The results of the meetings, as well as the recommendations, were designed to influence Dominican policies. Individual panels were asked to contribute to the deliberation and design stage of the National Development Plan in 2010.

Institutional design

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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
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: no

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation