Observatory of Early Childhood
The Observatory of Early Childhood was created by the Network Our Sao (in Portuguese Nossa São Paulo, with support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation. The Observatory monitors the quality of life of children from 0 to 6 years of age in different areas of the city of São Paulo, with the purpose of raising awareness about the precarious conditions in which many children live. In addition, the Observatory monitors policies targeting children that are implemented in the city.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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