National Council of Education
The National Council of Education is the most important multi-sector body at the national level for the definition of policies, guidelines, structures and contents of basic education in the Dominican Republic. It is represented by various ministries and secretariats, as well as from the public and private sector, basic and secondary education levels, teachers and non-teaching staff, as well as the from the trade unions, business, labor, family, religious and student sectors. They have broad powers for project preparation, the presentation of proposals to both the Executive and Legislative Branches and the advising and evaluation of measures and results.
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
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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