National Board - Intersectorial Commission on Prevention and Attention to Violence towards Children and Adolescents
The "Mesa País" (lit. National Board) was gathered to discuss and develop effective public policies to guarantee the rights of children and adolescents. The Commission was integrated by representatives of civil society organizations and international cooperation agencies that work on the matter. The National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents coordinated it. They followed a dual strategy: first, they promoted a bill in parliament; and second, they worked with other public institutions, civil society and the media to raise awareness on violence against children and adolescents. Due to the lack of explicit and comprehensive regulation to protect children in Paraguay and monitor Paraguay?s responses to the United Nations recommendations, this Commission devoted itself to drafting a bill. In 2013, a draft bill was presented, which resulted in Law No. 5659 of 2016 under the name: "Promoting good treatment, positive upbringing and protection of children and adolescents; against corporal punishment or any other type of violence as a method of correction or discipline."
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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