National Council of the Family and the Minor
The National Council of the Family and the Minor is an institution that reports to the Ministry of Social Development and was created through Panama?s Family Code, which was passed in 1994. The Council is made up of 13 members, 4 of which are government officials and 9 representatives of civil society and the private sector. Its objective is to act as an advisory body in the elaboration of social policies. The Council shall periodically prepare a diagnosis on the situation of families in Panama, evaluate the strategies and actions of private and public organizations that develop initiatives in favor of the family, elaborate recommendations and coordinate programs for the promotion, consolidation and defense of families and minors.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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