National Council for Citizen Participation
The National Council for Citizen Participation is a collective advisory body within the scope of the Executive Branch, created by Law 475 for Citizen Participation, passed in 2003. Art. 95 mandates the creation of this Council to guarantee the compliance of the law and future regulations regarding citizen participation. Art. 96 establishes the integration of this Council, which must include representatives from various State branches, including the Ministries of Government, of Economic and Social Planning, of Health, of Education, and of Culture and Sports, among others. On the side of civil society, representatives are included for: non-profit religious associations, organizations from the Autonomous Regions of the Atlantic Coast, AMUNIC and AMURACAN, organizations of the elderly and retirees, and cooperatives, unions, and the private sector.
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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