National Council on Childhood and Adolescence
The National Council for Children and Adolescents is an organism created by the Executive Power of Panama in 2019, through Decree no. 16. The Council is made up of 28 members, including representatives of governmental institutions, the private sector, and civil society. Its main purposes are: monitoring compliance with legislation on the Rights of the Child; monitoring the progress made on public policies aimed at guaranteeing access those rights; proposing the modification or adoption of regulations to grant effective access to the foresaid rights and designing, together with other institutions, strategies for this purpose; generating reports on the situation of children and adolescents in Panama, and operating as an advisory body in the elaboration of public policies that involve topics of childhood and adolescence.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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