Observatory of Children and Adolescents? Rights
The Observatory of Children and Adolescents? Rights (Span. ODENA) is a non-governmental organization which receives logistical and technical support from the Ombudsman's Office. Its purpose is to monitor the situation of the rights of children and adolescents in the country, in order to monitor and promote compliance of the Panamanian state with international laws on the Rights of the Child and recommendations from the Committee on the Rights of the Child of the United Nations. ODENA is made up of a Citizen Advisory Council (9 citizens who participate in a personal capacity) that directs the institution; a General Assembly made up of 30 non-governmental associations and 4 citizens; and a Technical Secretariat, in which the Directorate of Specialized Units of the Ombudsman's Office participates providing support.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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