National Human Rights Assembly
The National Human Rights Assembly was created in 2008 by Law No. 18.446, which created the National Institution of Human Rights and Ombudsperson (INDDHH). The law mandates that the INDDHH Board to hold a public session once a year, which offers a deliberative space for the exchange with social organizations and other state institutions. The issues to be discussed are decided by the board, but social organizations registered for the assembly have the possibility to call an extraordinary session per year on their own initiative and porpose the topics of discussion. Since the operation of INDDHH in 2012, 8 assemblies have been held. With the input of the first assemblies, the "Strategic Framework of the National Institution of Human Rights and Defender of the People" was created for 2014 - 2016 which was presented in the following sessions and was expanded with different proposals.
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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