Presidential Advisory Council for the Quality of Education
The Presidential Advisory Council for the Quality of Education was created by the Presidency of the Nation after the mobilization of secondary students in 2006. Comprised of 81 members, such as: parliamentarians, education specialists, academics, persons of distinct religions, representatives of indigenous peoples, parents, secondary and university students, teachers and educational assistants, municipal and private education providers, rectors of traditional and private universities; the council aimed to make recommendations and suggestions to improve the quality of education offered in schools and high schools across the country. The council reached a series of consensus that were presented to the Presidency of the Republic as requested.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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