Council of Public Policies for the Youth
The National Council for Youth Public Policies is an entity that advises the government on youth issues, and in turn designs and implements policies in this area. The Council also monitors the execution of the National Youth Plan and seeks to carry out a permanent diagnosis of the reality of Panamanian youth, which shall serve as an input in the formulation of programs and projects aimed at young people. The Council was created by Executive Decree no. 7 of 1999 and is made up of 26 members, who are representatives of government entities, the private sector and civil society. Among them are 5 Ministers, 5 Directors of Government Institutes, the President of the Council of Rectors of Universities (or the official designated by him/her), 14 members of the National Youth Council and the President of the National Ecumenical Committee (or the official that he designates).
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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