Advisory Council for Children and Adolescents
The Advisory Council for Children and Adolescents is made up of 14 girls and adolescent women as well as 14 boys and adolescent men from each of the 14 departments of El Salvador. It is an organization of children and adolescents who represent themselves and promote the full exercise of the right to participation. They also seek to influence decisions by members of the National System for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents. The Council was created was part of the project "Voices of Children Building Citizenship". The formation of the Council was implemented through a democratic and participatory election, in elections in the 14 departments of the country together with groups of children, adolescents and representatives of student organizations and associations.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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