Uruguay

Refreshing a Right: Youth discussing Health - First Latin American Congress on Youth Health in Uruguay

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2015 – 2015
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio de Salud PúblicaInstituto Nacional de la Juventud (INJU)Red de JuventudesFondo de Población de Naciones Unidas (UNFPA)Sociedad Uruguaya de Pediatría
Type of organization in charge: government civil society international organization
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The "Refreshing a Right: Youth discussing Health" - First Latin American Congress on Youth Health in Uruguay was held on September 7th, 2015 in Montevideo. It was organized by the Ministry of Public Health, the National Youth Institute and the Youth Network, and was supported by the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) and the Uruguayan Society of Pediatrics. Around 200 young people, mainly Uruguayan but also including some guests from abroad, as well as representatives of the organizing institutions and other experts in the field, were participating in the workshops and discussions. The thematic axes for the discussion were: disability; drug abuse; sexual and reproductive health; mental health; integral health and intergenerational relations; sexual diversity; violence; discrimination; environment and health; and participation from the perspective of health. The topics were first presented by the organizations, as well as through online process organized by the Youth Network, to generate some first inputs for discussion. The results of the congress were proposals for policies to improve the health sector for young people in those mentioned thematic areas.

Institutional design

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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: not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation