Municipal Councils for Elderly Rights
The Municipal Councils for Elderly Rights, provided for by Law No. 8,242 of 1994, include members from universities open to the elderly, former trade union leaders, members of the two national unions of the retired, elderly members of professional coexistence groups connected to gerontology. The councils discuss elderly issues on the municipal level. Their main tasks are to fight for the implementation of the National Policy for the Elderly, the Statute of the Elderly, and the Municipal Policy for the Elderly, and to discuss these policies with public authorities.
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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