Youth Assemblies
The Youth Assemblies are a space for socialization, consultation and accountability of the activities carried out by the Municipal and Departmental Youth Councils, which have the function of arranging and taking part in dialogue with the national and territorial authorities the territorial agendas of youth and the themes which affect them, as well as to exercise the vigilance and monitoring of public management in these matters. The Youth Assemblies have a wide and diverse composition, in which young people, organizations, practices, spaces, organizations and stakeholders related to youth all convene. The Assemblies, together with the Municipal, Departmental and National Youth Councils, form the subsystem of participation of the National Youth System. The Youth Assemblies were created by statute law 1622 of 2013: the "Statute of Juvenile Citizenship", which amended ordinary law 375 of 1997. The main change found within the new law is that the legal nature of the youth issue was increased, since statutory law has a higher rank than ordinary law because it touches on fundamental rights or substantive aspects of the Constitution. Other changes included in this new law are that it places greater emphasis on rights assurance, advocacy, capacity building, public investment, authority qualifications, equitable relationships and a differential approach.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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