Brazil

National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1991 – 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 Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents is a collegiate body, deliberative in character and of equal representation, established by the Statute of the Child and Adolescent in July, 1990. Some of the main issues the council has worked on until now are: the fight against violence and sexual exploitation perpetrated against children and adolescents; the prevention and eradication of child labor and the protection of adolescent workers; the promotion and defense of the rights of indigenous children and adolescents, Afro-Brazilian communities, and children and adolescents with disabilities; the creation of parameters for the functioning and action of the various parts of the guarantee of rights system; and the monitoring of bills related to the rights of children and adolescents in progress in the National Congress. The council is comprised of 28 members, with 14 representatives of the Executive branch - ensuring the representation of the agencies that execute basic social policies - and 14 representatives of national non-governmental entities that act in the promotion and protection of the rights of children and adolescents.

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 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