Advisory and Consultative Council (CAC) of the Institute of Children and Adolescents of Uruguay (INAU)
PROPIA, the "Program of child and adolescent participation of INAU" promotes knowledge and the exercise of the right to participation. One area created in this area is the Advisory and Consultative Council (Span. CAC) whose main mission is to advise the program directory, also on public policy issues, and thereby represent the interests and relate the concerns of children and adolescents. The Council was established in 2009 following recommendations issued by the 20th Pan American Child Congress. The CAC is formed by a representative between 13 and 17 years old for each department and meets four times a year with the board of INAU. In the plenary, a representative table is formed, elected by all the representatives. The table has five members to facilitate the work of the Council. In addition, the counselors in their respective departments have a promotion team consisting of their alternates, two children between 8 and 12 years old (chosen by children of the same age) and adult promoters of participation of PROPIA. Another important objective is to organize departmental congresses and one national congress per year for children and adolescents. In 2011, the INAU Board approved the sending of a bill to give legal form to the Advisory and Consultative Council, to be approved by the National Parliament.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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