School Parliament
The School Parliament is an initiative developed in the Congress of the Republic of Peru and constitutes a representative body of students from the 5th and 4th grade. The School Parliament was first created in 2014, and has periodically been formed through the years, with a parliament body of around 130 children adding up to more than 7,000 participants since it started. The aim of the School Parliament is to promote civic and democratic culture into students. The Parliament introduces participants to the ways in which the national congress works, they participate in a parliament model which generate proposals, discuss them and vote. The deliberative and democratic exercise is meant to contribute to the knowledge and appreciation to the political institutions of the country.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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