National Council of Women
The National Council of Women (Span. CONAMU) is a body under the executive branch composed of representatives of the State and the movements of the Ecuadorian society of women, with the purpose of developing actions to protect and promote the rights of women, as well as the performance of other public and rivate partnerships to do the same. Created in 1997, it worked until the approval of the new Ecuadorian charter in 2008, when it was replaced by the National Council for Gender Equality. Among the activities carried out by CONAMU, was the impact of the process of elaborating the Social and Productive Development Plan led by the National Secretariat for State Planning (Span. SENPLADES), the inclusion of gender indicators in the different sectors of the State and in making permanent specific committees for gender and gender violence in the social axis of the aforementioned Plan, as well as the recognition of the participation of women in the solidarity economy.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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