National Commission to Combat Maternal and Perinatal Mortality
The National Commission to Combat Maternal and Perinatal Mortality was created in 2000 by Decree No. 20, and was a multisectoral and multidisciplinary body whose purpose was to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality by proposing health programs and regulatory reforms, coordinating actions, and monitoring existing policies. The Commission was made up of representatives of state agencies and one representative of a civil society organization specialized in healthcare matters, the latter appointed by the president for a period of one year, with the possibility of being reappointed.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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