State Councils for Elderly Rights
The State Councils for Elderly Rights, provided for by Act No. 8,242 of 1994, are permanent supreme bodies of collegial deliberation that work together with the National Council for Elderly Rights. These councils are responsible for elderly rights policies, as well as for assisting in forwarding complaints of ill-treatment to the elderly. The State Councils are comprised of representatives of the public sector and civil society.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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