Children and Youth Parliament
The Children and Youth Parliament is an initiative of the Secretariat of Education for Citizenship of the Municipality of Montevideo, whose main objective is to promote the participation of young people and their civic education in their capacity as subjects of law and citizens. Educational institutions collaborate with the municipal government in the recreation of deliberative instances that simulate the functioning of parliaments, where boys, girls and young people in school age can participate. In these spaces, participants can make proposals and share reflections on their needs as citizens, which are later communicated to the City Hall. From 2016 to 2019, around 1,500 children and adolescents from 16 educational institutions had participated.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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