Ecuador

Advisory Council for Productive Development and Foreign Trade

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2011 – 2017
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio Coodinador de la ProducciónEmpleo y Competitividad
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: 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 Advisory Council for Productive Development and Foreign Trade is a collegial body composed of state representatives and civil society with the objective of promoting dialogue, deliberation and evaluation of public policies in the area of ??productive development and foreign trade. It is promoted by the Executive Branch through the responsible Ministry, and meets at least twice a year. It has as one of its duties to appoint representatives to the National Assembly of Good Living, the highest level of representation for society in terms of planning the Ecuadorian State. The Advisory Council for Productive Development and Foreign Trade is made up of representatives of the productive, private, mixed, popular and solidarity sectors, workers and decentralized autonomous governments. This Council may propose or suggest technical guidelines for the preparation of policies to be adopted by the entities responsible for productive development, investment and foreign trade policies. It is composed of 16 areas that review, articulate, coordinate, harmonize and approve public policies of production and industry at the national level and is chaired by the Coordinating Minister of Production, Employment and Competitiveness.

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: embedded in the constitution/legislation
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

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