Brazil

Municipal Councils for Women?s Rights

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1985 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Governos Municipais
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

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 Municipal Councils for the Defense of Women's Rights are collective bodies that represent women's rights. They aim to formulate, discuss and monitor public policies related to women's rights and are a permanent center of debate for several sectors of society. Its responsibilities include: supervising in order to enforce the legislation related to women?s rights in the federal, state and municipal governments; formulate guidelines and promote activities aimed at protecting the rights of women, eliminating discrimination and violence against women and in favor of their full integration into the socio-economic, political and cultural life; collaborating with programs aimed at enhancing the participation of women in all fields of activity; collaborating to the development of government policies, programs and services on issues related to women; giving opinions on bills of the Executive and the Legislative branches regarding women?s issues; suggesting the elaboration of bills which aim at protecting or expanding women?s rights.

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