Popular Consultation on education policies, health, sanitation budget and the destination of resources from oil surpluses
The Popular Consultation on education policies, health, sanitation budget and the destination of resources from oil surpluses was carried forward by the federal government of Ecuador in order to respond to three issues: the approval of the national education plan, the creation of universal health insurance and changes in oil investments. The responses were positive, despite the government's low approval rating. This consultation took place at the conclusion of the governmental term, specifically during the second round of the presidential elections. About 7 500 000 people participated in this consultation.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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