Municipal Councils of Youth
The Municipal Councils of Youth aim to promote the integration and participation of the youth in the social, economic, political and cultural life of the cities. It is comprised by members of the government and civil society and is responsible for: constituting the Reference Centers of Youth together with public and private educational, research, health, culture, sport and civil society organs, and is exclusively responsible for formulating its objectives, guidelines and operational structure; providing support for the development of laws and the formulation of policies toward the promotion, protection and defense of the rights of the youth, while ensuring the integration of these policies with the basic, supplementary, cultural, sports and economic municipal, state and federal social policies; encourage, support, promote and request, along with public and private organs, national and international events, the conduction of studies and research in the fields of promotion, protection and defense of the rights of youth; stimulate and organize the participation of youth and their entities, associations and academic, cultural, sports, charitable and religious groups in the formulation of public policies; and propose and coordinate coordinated actions in the areas of education, science and technology, health, work, public security, social assistance, human rights and citizenship, among others.
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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