National Youth Council
The National Youth Councils are mechanisms in which the youth representatives of the country?s municipalities are able to participate, exchange ideas, and coordinate with the national and territorial authorities on the youth agenda of the departments and municipalities, from which the youth representatives come, and on the issues that affect them. Likewise, the youth participants exercise the vigilance and monitoring of the public management in these subjects. As a result, the agreements reached by the youth with regards to alternative solutions to the needs and issues which they face and the visibility of their potential and proposals for their social, political and cultural development must be channeled through to the authorities. There are Youth Councils at the departmental and municipal level, from which the delegates to the National Youth Council come from. All Youth Councils are part of the subsystem of participation of National Youth System. The Youth Councils were originally created by ordinary law 375 of 1997, but this one was modified by statutory law 1622 of 2013: the "Statute of Juvenile Citizenship". The main change found in the new law is that the legal character of the youth issue was increased, since statutory laws have a higher rank than that of ordinary laws in that it touches on fundamental rights or more 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. However, due to the fact that to date (April 2016) the law 1622 has not been regulated in relation to the elections of the Councils, the National Youth Council has been replaced by the National Board of Counselors until a new election under the parameters of the new law is made. The new elections are expected to take place in 2016.
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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