Community Centers for Health Care and Oversight
The Community Centers for Health Care and Oversight are community spaces for the care, training and health monitoring of pregnant mothers and children up to 36 months of age, implemented as part of the National Strategy of the Ministry of Health (Span. MINSA) for Public Health Surveillance. They work together with community health workers as well as state representatives and contracted health workers. They work on the areas of: education in healthy practices, communal surveillance, and decision making.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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