National Council for Gender Parity
The National Council for Gender Parity is an institution created by Executive Decree No. 236 in 2018, which began to operate in 2020. The main purpose of the Council is to promote actions in favor of gender parity. Some of them include promoting equal pay, encouraging the promotion of women to decision-making positions in companies, and promoting parental co-responsibility. Among these initiatives, the Council shall provide support to young women, with an emphasis on those in conditions of socio-economic vulnerability. The Council is made up of 7 representatives from the public sector and 7 from the private sector, who participate ad-honorem and make decisions by consensus. The President of the Republic may appoint other members of the Council. In addition, the Council has a Technical Committee made up of ten representatives from the public and private sectors and the United Nations.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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