National Council for Comprehensive Early Childhood Care
The National Council for Comprehensive Early Childhood Care (CONAIPI) is an organism created by the Executive Power of Panama in 2014, through Decree no. 108. The Council is made up of 17 members: The First Lady of the Republic, who chairs it; representatives of 4 Ministries; the President of the Electoral Tribunal; representatives of the Social Security Fund, the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and the Family, the Women's Institute, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), professional and workers' unions, as well as civil society organizations, all of them specialized in early childhood issues. Among the Council?s functions are: leading the implementation of a plan called "Route to Comprehensive Early Childhood Care" and monitoring compliance with it; generating institutional mechanisms that contribute to the sustainability of this policy in the long term; as well as operating as an advisory body of the Executive Power and an inter-institutional coordination in issues related to early childhood and access to rights.
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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