Municipal Councils for the Promotion of Racial Equality
The Municipal Councils for the Promotion of Racial Equality are permanent, advisory, propositional and monitoring organs comprised by members of the government and civil society. These councils were created out of the necessity of bodies dedicated to issues concerning ethnic and racial issues. They are responsible for formulating public policies to defend the African-American, Jewish, Indigenous, Arabic and gypsy communities? rights and duties.
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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