National Council of Black Ethnicity
The National Council of Black Ethnicity was created by Executive Decree No. 116 in May 2007. The Council is made up of thirteen citizens representing afrodescendants and four representatives of the following public institutions: Ministry of the Presidency, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Government and Justice and Ministry of Economy and Finance. The Council has the following competencies: studying the challenges faced by people of African descent; advising the Executive Branch on matters concerning the recognition and defense of cultural values of Afro-descendants and anti-discrimination policies, as well as monitoring government compliance with policies that favor of Afro-descendant groups. Decisions in the Council are made by the principle of majority, being the participation of at least 3 representatives of government organizations a requirement.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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