National Meetings of Young People of African Descent
The national meetings of young people of African descent are platforms for dialogue and reflection for Afro-Panamanian youth, who are willing to influence the political agenda. The meetings are generally convened by government agencies in conjunction with civil society organizations and international organizations and have taken place in several provinces. The fourth meeting was convened in 2020, and the focus of the meeting is going to be the situation of Afro-Panamanian youth in the context of the health crisis generated by COVID-19 and the challenges to be faced. The meetings have built ties between Afro-descendant leaders and resulted in consensus and initiatives. The second meeting, for example, led to the creation of work commissions on topics such as health, education, the environment, political participation, and youth empowerment, which are supposed to carry out at least three activities every year.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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