Municipal Education Councils
The Municipal Education Councils are representative bodies of the educational community legally created in 2002 in order to grant greater participation and representation to the communities from its members, coming from the municipal mayor, the Ministry of Education, the Municipal Council, parents' associations, Teachers, the church and private enterprise, academic support, administrative and financial work of schools and have the power to make decisions on education at the municipal level. They participate directly in the implementation of local educational policies and in the elaboration of municipal education plans, and support the resolution of conflicts between the educational community and municipal delegations.
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
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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