Advisory Council on Early Childhood
The Advisory Council on Early Childhood is an organism created by the Executive Power of Panama in 2009, through Decree no. 201. The Council is made up of 9 members: Panama?s First Lady, who chairs it; the Ministers or Vice Ministers of Health, Education and Social Development; the Executive Secretary of the National Secretariat for the Nutritional Food Plan; a representative of the United Nations Organization; two representatives of non-governmental organizations and one representative of the private sector (all three appointed by the Executive Power). The Council?s functions include: promoting compliance with legal provisions on early childhood care; designing, implementing and evaluating a Comprehensive Protection Plan for Early Childhood; proposing the adoption and modification of regulations, as well as institutional reforms, for the implementation of early childhood care programs; operating as an advisory body to the Executive Branch and developing inter-institutional coordination on topics concerning early childhood. Although the Council designed the Comprehensive Protection Plan for Early Childhood, it was replaced in 2014 by the National Council for Comprehensive Early Childhood Care.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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