Family and Gender Equality Committees
The Family and Gender Equality Committees are citizen participatory bodies within the Communal Councils specifically responsible for developing gender equality programs within the community. Its objective is to promote prevention and citizen training aimed at combating gender and violence within the family. To this end, it makes a diagnosis of the situation of families and people at risk, draws up action plans and implements programs to promote citizen participation. It also works with other committees in assisting seniors at risk or in literacy work, job training for the elderly and with disabilities.
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
- no
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