I Decide
I Decide is an initiative from the civil organization Paz Joven created in 2013 with the objective of helping young people develop advocacy actions on issues such as: comprehensive sexuality education, comprehensive HIV and teen pregnancy prevention, nutrition and risk management during the adolescence. This multi-level initiative consists by multiple stages of participation that engage young Guatemalans all over the country in activities of reflection, deliberation, capacity building and dissemination of information relevant for the sexual health of the youth. The initiative has reached more than 4 thousand people in more than 16 municipalities across Guatemala.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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