National Consultation: Thematic Tables for the Initiative of Law Number 4826 "Youth Law"
The "National Consultation: Thematic Tables for the Initiative of Law Number 4826 (Youth Law)" were a series of discussion tables organized by the Government of Guatemala, through the National Youth Council (CONJUVE) with the support of UNICEF. The thematic tables were carried out with the objective of strengthening, commenting and proposing modifications to the initiative of Law 4826 "Youth Law". For this participatory process, any organization or youth group could register by phone or email. The final version of the draft law included the comments and proposals from youth groups in civil society.
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
- single
- 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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