National Defense and Security Council
The National Defense and Security Council is a collegial body of the Ministry of National Integration and is responsible for: assisting in the formulation, implementation and execution of the National Protection and Civil Defense Plan; proposing rules for the implementation and enforcement of the plan; expediting procedures for the deployment, execution and monitoring of the plan, according to the provisions of this law and in its regulation; proposing procedures for the treatment of children, adolescents, pregnant women, the elderly and people with disabilities in emergency situations in compliance with the applicable laws; and monitoring compliance with the laws and regulations of protection and civil defense. According to Act No. 12,608, of April 10th, 2012, the council is comprised of representatives of the federal government, states, Federal District, municipalities and civil society, including representatives of communities affected by disasters, and experts. Among the 19 advisers and counselors, 9 are representatives of the federal government, two are representatives of the states and the Federal District, and members of state agencies and civil defense; 3 are representatives of municipalities and members of municipal bodies of protection and civil defense; 3 are representatives of the civil society; and 2 are representatives of communities affected by catastrophes.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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