Municipal Councils for Fund for Basic Education
Municipal Councils for the Fund for Basic Education - created by a Constitutional Amendment in 2006 and regulated in 2007 - are collegial bodies formed by diverse social representations. It acts autonomously, without any subordination or link to the state or municipal administration. The council is not an administrative unit of the local government, but its actions should be guided in the light of public interest by seeking to improve the formal and continuous relationship with the local administration responsible for the management and allocation of the Fund for Basic Education?s resources, thus ensuring that monitoring is effective. It is comprised of at least 9 members, of which: 2 are representatives of the municipal executive branch (and of which at least 1 is from the Municipal Department of Education); 1 is a representative of primary education teachers; 1 is a representative of the primary school principals; 1 is a representative of the technical-administrative staff from primary schools; 2 are representatives of parents of primary school students; 2 are representatives of primary school students - one of which is referred by the high school student entity. If there is a Municipal Education Council and a Guardianship Council, one representative of each should be referred by their peers to take part in the council. Aside from this minimum requirement, other representations may have a seat in the council, as long as the law that establishes the collegiate body also envisages other representations.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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