Executive Order n. 8,243 and the Brazilian National Policy for Social Participation: impacts on health

Abstract

Civil society's participation as a component of public policy formulation, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring is not a recent issue. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 21 1 : "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives". Article 1 of Brazil's 1988 Citizens' Constitution 2 recognizes this new institutional framework when it states: "All power comes from the people, who exercise it through elected representatives or directly". Twenty-five years after passage of the 1988 Constitution, Executive Order n. 8,243 3 of May 23, 2014, created the National Policy for Social Participation (PNPS) and the National System for Social Participation, aimed at the creation, strengthening, and linkage of existing democratic structures for participation and their interface with the Federal government administration and civil society. The Executive Order thus regulates an existing Constitutional provision and does not extrapolate its own function. Executive Order n. 8,243/2014 has been poorly received and interpreted by some sectors of Brazilian society and the National Congress, although the ruling merely extends to other sectors of the Federal government administration the same participatory dialogue already enjoyed by the health sector since the 8 th National Health

Social Participation Ontology: community documentation, enhancements and use examples

“…Moreover, ontology was done for participa.br, based in the ops: the opa [21] (Ontology of participa.br). This is confluent with the presidential Decree 8.243 that establishes a policy and commitment for social participation [29]. In this context, presidential, ministerial and academic parties started formalizing current legal participatory mechanisms (e.g.…”