Public Policy Dialogue
The Public Policy Dialogue was developed with the primary objective of creating a permanent space for discussion and interaction between decision-makers and the public. It was organized by the Solidarity Foundation, the Integral Center for Local Development and the University of Santo Domingo (UASD) as a public space for citizen deliberation and exchange with the leadership in public policies. In general, the meetings lasted about two hours, with one or two speakers for a selected topic and later interaction with the audience. Until 2016, more than 20 public dialogues have been held. The results of the sessions are published online and result in public policy recommendations to the competent authorities.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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