Departmental Youth Councils
The Departmental Youth Councils are mechanisms in which youth representatives from the country?s departments are able to participate, exchange ideas, and reach agreements with the national and territorial authorities on the territorial agendas of youth and the issues that affect them the most. Likewise, the youth participants exercise the vigilance and monitoring of the public management in these areas. As a result, the councils must channel through to the authorities the agreements reached by the youth with regards to alternative solutions to the needs and issues they face and the visibility of their potential and proposals for their social, political and cultural development. These Councils operate throughout the departments of the country and are members, together with the Municipal Youth Councils, of the National Youth System and in turn, the Youth Participation Subsystem. The delegates for the National Youth Council come from the Departmental and Municipal Councils. The Departmental Youth Councils were originally created by ordinary law 375 of 1997, but this was later modified by statutory law 1622 of 2013: the "Statute of Juvenile Citizenship". The main change to the law is that the legal character of the youth issue was increased, since statutory laws have a higher ranking than that of ordinary laws given that it touches on the fundamental rights or substantive aspects of the Constitution. Other changes included in this new law are that it places greater emphasis on rights assurances, advocacy, capacity building, public investment, authority qualifications, equitable relationships and a differential approach.
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
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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