Advisory Council for Children and Adolescents
The Advisory Councils for Children and Adolescents are deliberative and consultative bodies composed of representatives from civil society that contribute to governmental entities at the sub-national level and monitor public policies in this area. The cases are related to the National Council of intergenerational Equality. Among other specific functions, these councils should actively participate in matters of community interest that affect children and adolescents, promote compliance with the rights and policies of children and adolescents through mechanisms of social control and promote the integration and organization of Children and Adolescents at the parish, cantonal, provincial and national levels.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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