Civil Society Consultative Council of the Social Policy Coordination Cabinet
The Civil Society Consultative Council of the Social Policy Coordination Cabinet of the Dominican government was established in 2005, and consists of a civil society control mechanism for the design and implementation of the policies of the Cabinet and the Dominican government. Regulated by Resolution Nr. 2, the Consultative Council is civil society's control mechanism for the design and implementation of policies by the Cabinet, and thus the Dominican government. The Consultative Council's work builds on active collaboration by civil society and requires active involvement of the Cabinet, including transparency and the willingness to collaborate, in order to fulfill its original purpose. The Consultative Councils are represented at each level: one national, nine regional and one provincial and municipal council for each administrative unit. The provincial councils are staffed with relevant civil society representatives from each province, while the municipal councils are always brought together by two church representatives, and one representative each from grass roots organizations, NGOs, universities, entrepreneurs and the agricultural sector. Since its establishment, the Council continues to demand improvements in the Dominican government's social policy as well as holding the government accountable to its policy claims.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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