District Council for the Culture of the Elderly
The District Council for the Culture of the Elderly is part of the Subsystem of Culture for Ethnic Groups and Social Sectors and Age Groups of the District System of Art, Culture and Heritage of the Capital District. This Council is one of the District Councils of Culture for the Age Group Sectors, which are settings for the meeting, deliberation, participation and coordination of public and private policies, plans and programs and the respective strategic lines of investment for the cultural development of the Age Group Sectors of Bogotá. In this case, for the elderly. Representatives of the Local Art, Culture and Heritage Councils are represented in the Council and collaborate with senior adult organizations and the district administration. Initially, the District System of Culture was created in 2002, but it was not until 2007 that a subsystem was created for these social groups, when a reform was made to this System and the District System of Art, Culture and Heritage was established and as part of this, the Subsystem of Cultures for Ethnic and Rural Poor Groups and Communities, women, and rural and social populations and sectors; which included the District Council of Culture for the Elderly. Subsequently, in 2009, the Subsystem was modified and renamed as the Subsystem for Ethnic Groups and Social Sectors and Age Groups, which also included the District Council of Culture for the Age Group Sectors.
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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