Commission for the Rights of the Homeless Population
The Commission for the Rights of the Homeless Population was established within the National Council for Human Rights, and aims to receive, investigate and monitor the complaints of human rights violations of this social segment and propose recommendations for the improvement of public policies related to the subject. The commission defines ?homeless population? as "the heterogeneous population group that faces extreme poverty, has interrupted or weakened family bonds and lack of regular and conventional housing, therefore using public spaces, degraded areas and shelters as their temporary or permanent living spaces". The commission is comprised of members of the Human Rights Council and representatives of the National Movement of the Homeless Population, the National Pastoral of Homeless People, the Department of Support to the Participatory Management of the Health Ministry, the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents and the Ministries of Social Development and the Fight against Hunger, Justice and Cities.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- unknown
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