National Council for the Eradication of Child Labor
The National Council for the Eradication of Child Labor was established on September 12th, 2002. It is coordinated by the Ministry of Labor and Employment, and one of its greatest achievements was the elaboration of the National Plan for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor and the Protection of the Adolescent Workers, in 2003. From then on, child labor has been understood as any economic activity and/or survival activity, for or non-profit, paid or unpaid, performed by children or adolescents until the age of 16 years, except as an apprentice from the age of 14 on, regardless of their position. The council coordinates, monitors and evaluates the implementation of the National Plan for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor and the Protection of the Adolescent Workers, and proposes yearly modifications according to need. Another important competency of the council is to interact with other government bodies and the civil society. It understands that the fight against child labor has multiple interfaces and confronting them requires joint actions in different areas, such as education, health, sport and leisure activities etc., as well as in issues such as gender and race. The council consists of 18 entities that represent different branches of the government, workers, employers and the civil society, and is coordinated by the Ministry of Labor and Employment
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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