Socio-educational Forum
The Socio-Educational Forum is a network of organizations engaged in the field of education in the Dominican Republic. Its objective is to enrich and promote the debate on the subject in order to help shape a more comprehensive and inclusive system. The Forum performs a continuous evaluation and monitoring of the country's educational policies and the allocation of public spending, it also actively engages in and coordinates movements for the implementation of a progressive educational agenda. One example of its advocacy efforts was the systematization between 2007 and 2011 of the Coalition for the Right to Decent Education (CED), which called for the administrative compliance with the General Law of Education in regards to the proper funding of pre-universitary education. Furthermore, at the grassroots level, the Forum aims to strengthen institutions within the educational system, an example of this is the reflective table organized in March 2019, which offered participants an opportunity to share good practices in extended and full-day schools. In 2019, the work of the forum was recognized during the National Award for Quality and Recognition of Promising Practices in the Public Sector for helping the government?s efforts in ensuring equal access to quality education.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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