Advisory Councils on Childhood and Adolescence
The Advisory Councils on Childhood and Adolescence are institutions in which children and adolescents participate by sharing their opinion on issues concerning childhood and adolescence (especially those aspects that are crucial to guaranteeing the full exercise of their rights) and/or other topics that interest them or affect them indirectly, in order to influence political decision-making. Additionally, the Councils seek to boost and promote the capacities of children and teenagers to generate proposals, projects, and initiatives that improve policies and programs for children and adolescents. The Councils were created by the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents, and the Family (SENNIAF) in cooperation with Mayors from different locations, including Colón, San Carlos and Panama District.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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