Honorary Commission of Women Advisers to the Senate of the Republic
The Honorary Commission of Women Advisers to the Senate of the Republic is an advisory commission of the Senate of the Nation whose function is to express their opinion on draft laws and propose new projects, measures and programs within and outside the Senate in matters relating to equality and gender. It is composed of female legislators who are part of the Senate body as well as representatives of civil organizations recognized for their work and struggle in defense of women's rights. This Commission has played an important role in passing numerous laws.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- 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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