Brazil

National Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1999 – 2019
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

National Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was created in 1999 and instituted in 2003. It is a superior collegiate body of deliberation that aims at monitoring and evaluating national policy with respect to persons with disabilities. It is responsible for: approving the federal public administration?s plans and programs directly and indirectly; monitoring the implementation of the National Policy for the Inclusion of People with Disability; monitoring the planning and evaluating the implementation of sectoral policies for education, health, work, social assistance, transport, culture, tourism, sport, leisure, urban policy, rehabilitation and others regarding persons with disabilities; monitoring the elaboration and execution of the Secretariat of Human Rights? budget proposal; approving the annual work plan of the National Secretariat for the Promotion of the Rights of the Person with Disability; and monitoring the performance of national policy programs and projects that aim to include persons with disabilities. The council is comprised equally of representatives of the civil society and of the public sector. From a total of 38 councilors, 19 representatives are from the public sector and 19, from civil society institutions.

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