Ecuador

Sectorial Citizen Council for Culture and Heritage

The Sectorial Citizen Council for Culture and Heritage is a participatory case for dialogue, deliberation and follow-up, inserted into the Ministry of Culture from the provisions of Executive Decree No. 656. Among its functions are the proposal of agendas, the monitoring of political decisions and Cultural plans, participatory evaluation and citizen public debate. The National Sectorial Citizen Council of the Ministry of Culture promotes periodic dialogues for deliberation on cross-sectorial-cultural public policies and the Culture Law. This Council is formed by a member of the civil society of each of the provinces and ordinarily meets twice a year. At the national level, the Citizen Sectorial Council of Culture and Heritage is made up of 10 main representatives and 10 alternates, all of them elected in the Zonal Cultural Committees.

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

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