Municipal Social Assistance Councils
The Municipal Social Assistance Councils, provided for under the Organic Law of Social Assistance of 1993, are the bodies responsible for debating and establishing norms, and overseeing the provision of public and private municipal services of social assistance. The councils are tied to the managing body of social assistance, which should provide infrastructure and ensure material, human and financial resources. Their main tasks are: to deliberate and oversee the implementation of the Social Assistance Policy and its performance; convene and direct the deliberations of the social assistance conferences; review and approve the Social Assistance Plan; review and approve the budget proposal for the resources for social assistance to be forwarded to the Legislative branch; review and approve the budget and financial execution of the Assistance Fund, to be regularly presented by the fund manager; monitor the cooperation procedures for the Tripartite Interagency Commission and the Bipartite Interagency Commission pacts; publicize and promote the protection of the social assistance rights; subscribe social assistance organizations, as well as services, programs, and projects of social assistance; supervise the network of social assistance (performed by public authorities and by the private sector), while ensuring the quality of services; choose, among its members, the chairmen (president and vice-president of equal representation); approve its internal rules; supervise and monitor the Continuous Cash Benefit and the Bolsa Família Programs; monitor the integrated management of services and benefits of social support; and exercise social control over the management of the Unified System of Social Assistance. The councils are comprised by members of the government 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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