Municipal Youth Councils
The Municipal Youth Councils are mechanisms in which the youth representatives of the country?s municipalities are able to participate, exchange ideas, and reach agreements with the national and territorial authorities on the municipal agendas of young people and the issues that affect them. Likewise, the youth participants exercise the vigilance and monitoring of the public management in these areas. As a result, the agreements of 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 must be channeled through to the authorities. These councils operate in the municipalities of the country and are members, together with the Departmental 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 Municipal Youth Councils were originally created by ordinary law 375 of 1997, but this was modified by statute law 1622 of 2013: the "Statute of Youth Citizenship". The main change to the law is that the legal character of the youth issue was increased, since statutory laws have a higher rank than that of ordinary laws because it touches on 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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