National Council for Social Assistance
The National Council for Social Assistance is a supreme body of collegial deliberation, established on December 7th, 1993, through the Organic Social Assistance Act. The council has a permanent character and is linked to the Ministry of Social Development. The Organic Social Assistance Act was instituted to acknowledge social rights in the country, therefore establishing a set of fundamental guarantees (benefits and social and welfare services). The law determines that the State (municipal, state and federal governments) should be the one to promote these guarantees and rights. It also establishes the council as the social control organ over federal social assistance policies, and that it should work together with the federal government in the development of the National Policy for Social Assistance. The organ retains social control over policies related to the topic, rectifies actions and regulates the provision of both private and public services. It is also responsible for convening the National Conference on Social Assistance, which has had eight editions. The council has a committee comprised of 18 members and their respective alternates who are appointed by the President of the Republic. Half of the councilors represent the State while the other half equally represent: persons or organizations comprised of persons that benefit from social assistance; social assistance entities and organizations; and workers in the sector of social assistance.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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