Youth Platforms
The Youth Platforms are scenarios in which young people belonging to organizations, practices and participation spaces can meet, articulate, coordinate and consult on the design and development of municipal, district, departmental and national youth agendas. In this way, at each territorial level, a Youth Platform must be formed. Likewise, the Platforms have the function of advising Youth Councils at the local level, promoting the creation of processes of participation spaces for youth and exercising supervision and social control to the implementation of youth agendas. The Youth Platforms are members, together with the Departmental, Municipal and National Youth Councils, the National Youth System and, in turn, the Youth Participation Subsystem. The Platforms were created by statute law 1622 of 2013: the "Statute of Juvenile Citizenship", which amended ordinary law 375 of 1997. The main change of 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 assurances, 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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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