Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) Review Debate
Debate da Revisão Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA) (lit. Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) Review Debate ) was an online debate held by the Ministry of Justice between October and November of 2016 to gather input to draft a bill to reform the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA), creating new deadlines for the adoption process, deals with affective sponsorship, foster care, international adoption and voluntary delivery. The goal of the debate was to target possible discrepancies between the text of the Statute and the existing adoption processes. The first month of the debate received over 10.000 visits to the platform and 1.000 comments on the proposed text. After gathering input, the text would be sent to the National Congress.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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