Youth Agenda from Juigalpa Municipality
In 2011 the Nicaraguan Sustainable Network led the project of collectively writing a Youth Agenda that gathered the main issues and challenges faced by young citizens in Juigalpa Municipality, with the purpose of presenting it to local decision-makers and influence policymaking. The Agenda included a series of recommendations or concrete proposals defined by the youngsters who participated. The Agenda, which was not led by any public institution, was put together throughout a participatory process that included a survey, a cultural festival and a forum in which the youngsters selected the rights they wanted to prioritize, defined their understanding of such rights, and drafted concrete claims to their local government around them.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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