National Council for Gender Equality
The National Council for Gender Equality is the deliberative and consultative body established at the national level from the Organic Law of Councils for Equality and the National Law of Participation. It is made up of civil society representatives with the aim of facilitating and guiding the development and integration of the gender equality principle into all processes of public policy. It appeared as a substitute for the former National Council of Women, established in 1997. Together with the other councils for equality, it is a central mechanism in the new conception of participation established by the Federal Constitution of 2008. This Council does not make binding decisions. Participation is materialized through regular deliberative meetings where representatives of government and civil society agents discuss guidelines for public policies, taking into account the needs of socially disadvantaged 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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