Childrens' and Youth Town Hall Meeting
The Children and Youth Open Town Hall is an event held annually by the mayor of Montevideo's Municipality B, where children and young people from this area are offered a space to participate and debate with the authorities. Each year, young people are summoned through their educational institutions, and take part in different thematic workshops. The participants then have the opportunity to debate according to what they have learned, and to collectively determine the priorities, needs and proposals that they consider important to bring closer to the local administration. Until 2019, 9 editions had been held, with the participation of between 80 and 400 children per year. Some of these proposals were later transferred to the Youth Participatory Budget of Municipality B (PREPA), where they were taken up to be allocated funding.
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
- 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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