National Council of Volunteer Work
The National Council of Voluntary Work is an institution that reports to the Ministry of Social Development and was created in 2014 through Law no. 29. It is made up of 8 members representing government agencies and civil society organizations which coordinate and promote volunteer work. The purpose of the Council is to act as a consultation and coordination entity with regards to the practice of volunteering. The Council shall promote alliances between public and private organizations working in the field of volunteering, coordinating and connecting them; support and facilitate the exercise of voluntary work, ensure compliance with the Law on Volunteer Work, collaborate in the formulation of policies that concern volunteering; as well as keep a registry of individuals who volunteer.
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
- yes
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