National Council for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
The National Council for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders is a deliberative and advisory body of the National System for Protection of Human Rights Defenders which is responsible for establishing coordination bases with other governmental and social institutions for the adequate protection of human rights. Among the functions of the Council is the formulation of proposals and recommendations to improve the National System for Protection of Human Rights Defenders, as well as to supervise, monitor, follow-up and evaluate the System, and the creation of preventative and protective measures that guarantee the integrity, freedom, and security of human rights defenders. The Council is comprised by 15 persons, including representatives of different State Institutions and civil society organizations.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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