More Youth, More Democracy
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the restoration of democracy in Uruguay, in 2015, the "More Youth, More Democracy" initiative was born from the National Parliament and the National Institute of Youth of the Ministry of Social Development (INJU-MIDES), supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The objective was to create a space where young people could discuss the future of democracy and the possibilities of development for young people. It was an open space taking place at the local, regional and national levelwhere young people could share among themselves, but also to inform the results of the deliberations to official representatives of all levels of the State as well as to the rest of the citizenry. 1530 young people from 85 localities participated. It culminated with a great National Democracy Meeting, held in the Legislative Palace where more than 130 young people representing their departments attended.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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