Brazil

National Youth Council

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2005 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Presidencia da República
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The National Youth Council was created in 2005, along with the National Secretariat of Youth. Its creation was a symbol of the Brazilian State?s recognition of the youth as a social group with particular interests and needs. These two bodies were an important step toward public policies geared to the youth and toward generating spaces for participation and dialogueue between the government and civil society. The council is in charge of advising the National Secretariat of Youth in the elaboration of guidelines for government action, promoting studies and research on the socio-economic reality of the youth and ensures that the National Policy for Youth is guided by the recognition of the rights and capacities of the youth and the increase of citizen participation. The council has 60 members, 20 from the government and 40 from the civil society. Among government representatives there are 17 ministries that maintain youth-focused programs and actions, the State and Municipal Administrator Forum and the Parliamentary Front for Public Policies for the Youth. The representatives of the civil society are formed by 13 supporting bodies.

Institutional design

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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 non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

https://www.cnj.pt/