Municipal Commissions for Consultation and Decision-Making of the National Youth System
The Municipal Commissions for Consultation and Decision-Making of the National Youth System are organizations in which the young representatives of the municipalities of the country agree, plan and decide on the public agendas and the mechanisms of execution of the same in each territory, in this case at the municipal level. These Commissions, at the municipal, departmental and national level, are one of the three components of the National Youth System of the country. The other two components are the Institutional Subsystem of Youth and the Subsystem of Youth Participation. The Municipal Commissions for Consultation and Decision-Making were created by statutory 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 that of 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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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