Youth Parliament of Minas Gerais
The Youth Parliament of Minas Gerais is a youth participation program carried out by the Legislative Assembly of the state of Minas Gerais. The objective is to contribute to citizenship training and civic education for high school students through their participation in different instances of debate and exchange with peers. Each year has a thematic focus on which young people are informed, debate, and reach joint conclusions that are sent to the Legislative Assembly for consideration through its Popular Participation Commission. The Young Parliament has been organized annually since 2004. Until 2010 it took place centrally in the capital, Belo Horizonte. Between 2010 and 2013, it was carried out in stages, first at the Municipal level and then with representatives sent to the State plenary. Starting in 2014, an intermediate stage of Regional Plenaries was added.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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