National Council for Food and Nutritional Security
The National Council for Food and Nutritional Security was established in 2003, and its purpose is to exercise social control and act in the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of the National Policy and the National System for Food and Nutritional Security. In 2016, the council was mainly responsible for convening and organizing the National Conference on Food and Nutritional Security at least every four years or less; articulating and monitoring - along with other members of the National System for Food and Nutritional Security - the implementation and the convergence of action in regard to the National Policy for Food and Nutritional Security; Formularbeginnarticulating the participation of states and municipalities in the council; mobilizing and supporting civil society organizations in the implementation of the National Policy for Food and Nutritional Security; encouraging the creation and improvement of participatory mechanisms and social control over policy actions; ensuring the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food; maintaining permanent coordination with other national councils connected to actions regarding food and nutritional security, as well as foreign institutions; and strengthening the participatory development of the National Policy and the National System for Food and Nutritional Security. During the period of 2009-2011, the council was comprised of 57 members plus 28 guest observers.
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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