Departmental Commissions for Combating Domestic Violence
The Departmental Commissions for Combating Domestic Violence were created by the National Advisory Council to Combat Domestic Violence, according to Law 17.514 of 2002. There are a total of 19 Commissions, one for each department, and they are intersectoral bodies that, in addition to including representatives of different state bodies, also have the participation of three Representatives of non-governmental organizations. All representatives shall have the right to vote and the President of the Commission shall be appointed by a vote. Its duties are to advise in the matter at the Department level, to support the National Council in its work and to implement and adapt the "National plans to combat domestic violence" at the departmental and local levels.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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