Chile

Regional Dialogues for Children and Adolescents

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2015 – 2015
Name of organization in charge: Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD)Consejo Nacional de la Infancia
Type of organization in charge: government international organization
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The Regional Dialogues for Children and Adolescents were carried out during 2015 by the National Children's Council, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the objective of collecting diverse opinions from the citizens for the building of the new Universal Guarantee of Rights for Childhood and Adolescence Law, which coincided with the first anniversary of the Council. These instances took place in 20 different regions throughout Chile, involving about one million children. The Council set out to listen to children and all those who made contributions on issues of childhood and adolescence, to co-construct the legislation in question. In short, these dialogues served as spaces of free expression for ideas and proposals regarding the situations in which children live in each region. In September 2015, following these dialogues, the Presidency of the Nation sent the draft "Law of Guarantees for Children's Rights" to Congress, which in turn resulted in the creation of the "Subsecretariat for Children".

Institutional design

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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: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://dialogos.consejoinfancia.gob.cl/