Proposal for a Volunteer Bill in Paraguay
The Impulse Group for Volunteer Law in Paraguay represents more than 20 civil society organizations which in 2013 agreed on the need for a Volunteer Law that is representative and participatory. After several meetings between the organizations to analyze and compose a base document, the Impulsor Group was formed. The base document was widely spread on social media to all civil society organizations working on volunteering with the goal that they contribute with suggestions and opinions. Finally, a draft bill was written and the Impulsor Group is participating in meetings with the different committees of the National Congress.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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