Councils for Children and Teenagers
Law No. 1680, known as the "Code for Children and Adolescents" creates the National, Departmental and Municipal Councils for Children and Teenagers. The Departmental Councils are made up of government authorities at the departmental level, non-governmental organizations working on issues related to children and teenagers, and representatives of the Municipal Councils for Children and Teenagers. The Municipal Councils have a similar composition but at the local level, with the participation of neighborhood commissions. The departmental councils send representatives to participate in the National Council, with governmental authorities at the national level. These councils seek to provide guidance on policies and programs for the promotion of the rights of children and teenagers, making proposals and supporting the implementation of plans and programs.
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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