Regional and National Councils of the Fund for Strengthening Public Interest Organizations
The Regional and National Councils of the Fund for Strengthening Public Interest Organizations are participatory bodies, composed of representatives of civil society together with public representatives from various agencies and levels of the State. At the regional level, the corresponding Councils are responsible for allocating resources from the Fund for Strengthening Organizations of Public Interest, created by Law No. 20.500 on Associations and Citizen Participation in Public Management. At the national level, the Council fulfills a similar role for projects at the national level, and is composed of 6 representatives of civil society as well as some designated public representatives. It is important to mention that the neighborhood councils, municipal unions, community organizations, indigenous organizations and communities, foundations, corporations and any other organization of public interest can participate in the fund managed by the appointed Councils.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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