National Debate on Youth Citizen Participation
The National Debates on Youth Citizen Participation are events organized by the Independent Movement organization (Movin). Held at the National Assembly, 120 young people, aged 18-25 years, from different organizations and positions, participated through seven working groups on various topics such as: educational and constitutional reforms; the new process for the election of Magistrates; and the mechanisms for citizen participation in decision-making. Authorities such as the Deputy Minister of Education, the Attorney General of the Administration, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Mayor of Panama moderated the discussion tables. At the end of the event, a document summarizing concerns and relevant issues for young people was presented, to serve as input for the drafting of future legislation.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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