Honorary Advisory Council on Mental Health and Addictions
The Honorary Advisory Council on Mental Health and Addictions is a participatory space formed in 2014 in which unions, professional associations, human rights organizations, users and family members, as well as academics, meet to discuss public policies aimed at the inclusion of people who suffer mental health problems and addictions. It was created as an integral part of the new mental health legislation, so as to provide a space for civil society organizations to complement the work of the authorities on mental health and addictions, enabling them to make proposals that consider the problems and particularities of the different sectors they represent. They may also be issued on their own initiative for specific policies and measures, making comments and proposals. The working areas that organize the internal commissions of the Council are: social inclusion and sustainable life in the community; interdisciplinary and mental health workers; mental health and diversity; access to health; and community, culture, art and communication.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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