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statutory law 1622 OF 2013
(April 29)
Official Journal No. 48.776 of 29 April 2013
CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC
By means of which the status of juvenile citizenship is issued and other provisions are dictated.
COLOMBIA CONGRESS
DECRETA:
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
ARTICLE 1o. OBJECT. Establish the institutional framework to guarantee to all and young people the full exercise of youth citizenship in the fields, civil or personal, social and public, the effective enjoyment of the rights recognized in the The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and facilitate their participation and impact on the social, economic, cultural and democratic life of the country.
ARTICLE 2o. PURPOSES. The following are the purposes of this law:
1. To guarantee the recognition of youth in society as a subject of rights and protagonists in the development of the nation from the exercise of difference and autonomy.
2. Define the political agenda, the guidelines of public policies and social investment that guarantee the effective enjoyment of the rights of youth in relation to society and the state; the articulation in all areas of government, training and harmonization of the supply and the process of political and technical training aimed at young people, public servants and society in general.
3. To ensure the participation, consultation and advocacy of young people on decisions that affect them in the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental spheres of the nation.
4. To enable and promote the development of skills, individual and collective competences from the exercise of rights and duties oriented to the construction of the public.
5. Promote equitable relations between generations, genders and territories, between areas such as rural and urban, public and private, local and national.
ARTICLE 3o. RULES OF INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION. The rules contained in the Political Constitution and in the Treaties or International Conventions on Human Rights ratified by Colombia, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child in what is They will make an integral part of this law, and serve as a guide for their interpretation and application, and the following approaches will be taken into account:
1. Human Rights Approach. Regarding the legal framework imposed by the International Treaties and the Political Constitution of Colombia.
2. Differential Approach. As a principle of action and mechanism of respect and exercise of rights from ethnic, gender, territorial origin, social context, age orientation and sexual identity or disability status.
3. Human Development Approach. Under which the capabilities and potentialities of people are recognized and promoted from the generation of opportunities to decide.
4. Human Security Approach. Under which it seeks to guarantee basic minimum conditions that generate emotional, physical, psychological, and personal security of people and societies and ensure peaceful coexistence in each territory.
ARTICLE 4. PRINCIPLES. The principles that inspire this law are based on the Political Constitution, but in addition they will be guiding principles for the interpretation and application of this law, the following:
1. Autonomy. Las and young people are recognized and recognized as agents capable of developing, reviewing, modifying and implementing their life plans through independence for decision-making; self-determination in ways of organizing; and the possibility of expressing themselves according to their needs and perspectives.
2. Corresponsibility. The State, family and civil society must respect, promote and strengthen the active participation of young people in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of programs, plans and actions that are developed for inclusion in life. political, economic, social, environmental and cultural of the Nation.
3. Coordination. The Nation, the department, the municipality or the District will seek effective competition to avoid duplicity of actions and to promote its implementation in a comprehensive and transversal manner.
4. Concertation. The provisions contained in this law, and those which are subject to regulation, will be concerted through a process of social and political dialogue between civil society, the institutions and the other actors working with and for youth.
5. Decentralization and deconcentration. Youth policies should be planned from close proximity, ensuring their full effectiveness and implementation.
6. Dignity. All people have the right to a dignified and safe life; young people are the fundamental objective of the actions undertaken in compliance with the rule of law through the elimination of any form of violation of their rights.
7. Efficiency, efficiency and responsible management. Programmes and actions aimed at young people should be equipped with sufficient resources to achieve the intended objectives, giving them an appropriate use for their purpose and managing them with responsibility.
8. Diversity. Los and young people should be recognized in their diversity under a differential perspective according to social, physical, psychological, vulnerability, discrimination, ethnic diversity, sexual orientation and identity, cultural territorial and gender to ensure equal opportunities for all young people.
9. Required. Rights are inherent in young people, these are intangible and inalienable. Young people and young people must and can demand the guarantees that enable them to exercise their rights.
10. Equal opportunities. The State must reduce the inequalities between the different starting points of young people in the process of drawing up their own life project. Administrative action is compatible with positive discrimination if it is justified by a situation of inequality, pursues real equality and facilitates social integration.
11. Innovation and social learning. The action of the State in the field of youth must incorporate permanent innovation, social learning, experimentation and concertation as the basis for the construction of youth policies.
12. Integrality. Youth policies must respond to a comprehensive perspective that interrelates the different areas of young people's lives.
13. The youth interest. All public policies must take into account the youth dimension, especially those that affect young people directly or indirectly.
14. Participation. The young population of the country has the right to be linked to decision-making processes that concern or directly or indirectly affect the attainment of dignified living conditions, as well as to take part in the various aspects of the socioeconomic life, both in relation to the State, and with other social actors.
15. Progressiveness. The State with the support of civil society must gradually and progressively adopt and implement the actions and mechanisms, in order to achieve the full effectiveness of the rights recognized here.
16. Territoriality. Young people, as social subjects who live and use spaces that they build with other social subjects, are recognized as agents with rights belonging to a physical and physical territory where they build collectively and in a way conscious and differential symbolic, social and environmental environments. Youth policies must incorporate a territorial point of view. All the necessary actions for the benefit of young people must be carried out taking into account the different territorial realities.
17. Transversality. The work in the development of youth policies must incorporate the different sectors of industry and the different associative and community dynamics of young people, taking into account the articulation in the different territorial levels. The departments, institutions, entities and agents concerned should work in a coordinated manner in each intervention on youth policies.
18. Universality. All people without exception have equal rights. The State must guarantee the rights to all young people under a differential perspective according to conditions of vulnerability, discrimination, ethnic, cultural and gender diversity.
Public entities should have the support and participation of civil society, entities and the freely established partners, and should enhance the development of youth policies as defined by this law. through the social initiative and the third sector.
ARTICLE 5o. DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this law,
following definitions shall apply:1. Young. Every person between 14 and 28 years of age has been fulfilled in the process of consolidating his intellectual, physical, moral, economic, social and cultural autonomy, which is part of a political community and in this sense exercises his citizenship.
2. Youth. A population segment constructed socioculturally and which refers to practices, relationships, aesthetics and characteristics that are constructed and are socially attributed. This construction is developed individually and collectively by this population, in relation to society. It is also a vital moment where physical, intellectual and moral capabilities are being consolidated.
3. Youth. The subjective process crossed by the condition and the lifestyle articulated to the social constructions. Youth realities and experiences are plural, diverse and heterogeneous, so that young people cannot be understood as isolated, individual and decontextualized entities, but as a construction whose subjectivity is being transformed by the social, economic and political dynamics of societies and whose societies they also contribute.
4. Processes and organizational practices of young people. entiendase as the plural number of people mostly constituted by young affiliates, who develop actions under a goal, and common name, has mechanisms for the flow of information and communication and establishes mechanisms democratic decision-making and whose operation is due to regulations, internal agreements or statutes approved by its members. These processes and practices according to their organizational nature are divided into three:
4.1 Formally constituted. Those that have legal status and register with competent authority.
4.2 Not formally constituted. Those that without having legal status have legal recognition that is achieved through a private document.
4.3 Informals. Those that are generated spontaneously and do not fit a single goal or that when they achieve it disappear.
5. Gender. It is the set of characteristics, roles, attitudes, values and symbols constructed socially that recognizes the diversity and differences between men and women in full enjoyment or exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms, in conditions equality in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other sphere of public life.
6. The participation spaces of the youth. They are all forms of concertation and collective action that integrate a plural and diverse number of processes and organizational practices of young people in a territory, and that develop thematic actions of articulation and work collective with other actors, these spaces must be processes that are called, broad and diverse, and may include unorganized youth according to their own dynamics.
They will be recognized as spaces for participation among others in the networks, tables, assemblies, councils, youth councils, Afro-Colombian community councils, and other spaces that arise from the dynamics of the youth.
7. Youth Citizenship. Condition of each of the young members of the democratic political community; and for the case of this law implies the exercise of the rights and duties of the youth in the framework of their relations with other young people, society and the State. The enforceability of rights and the fulfilment of duties will be referred to the three dimensions of citizenship: civil, social and public.
7.1 Civil Youth Citizenship. It refers to the exercise of civil and political rights and duties, of young people whose development favors the generation of capacities to elaborate, revise, modify and implement practice your life plans.
7.2 Social Youth Citizenship. refers to the exercise of a series of rights and duties that enable the participation of young people in the social, economic, environmental and cultural fields of their community.
7.3 Public Youth Citizenship. refers to the exercise of rights and duties in areas of consultation and dialogue with other social actors, the right to participate in public spaces and in the instances where decisions are made that affect the realities of young people.
PARAGRAFO 1o. The definitions referred to in this Article do not replace the age limits laid down in other laws for adolescents and young people in which criminal guarantees are established, protection, civil liability, citizen rights or any other legal or constitutional provision.
PARAGRAFO 2o. In the case of young people from ethnic communities, the ability to exercise rights and duties will be governed by their own regulatory systems, which must be in full harmony with the Constitution. Politics and international normativity.
OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF YOUTH.
RIGHTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
ARTICLE 6o. RIGHTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE. Young people are the holders of the rights recognized in the Political Constitution, in the International Treaties approved by Colombia, and in the norms that develop or regulate them. This Statute seeks to reaffirm the guarantee in the full exercise of its civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights, both individually and collectively of the young population, through measures of promotion, protection, prevention and guarantee by the State for this population. The State will pay special attention to young people from a differential approach according to conditions of vulnerability, discrimination, sexual orientation and identity, ethnic, cultural, gender and territorial diversity.
The state will gradually and progressively generate the mechanisms to give effectiveness to the rights recognized in this law.
ARTICLE 7o. CRITERIA. In the framework of this law, they are criteria to guarantee the real and effective enjoyment of the rights of young people:
1. Prevention. Measures generated by the State to prevent acts and situations from creating threats, violations or violations of one or more rights to young people.
2. Protection. measures that the State generates to stop threats, violations or violations of human rights affecting young people, to guarantee the full restoration of rights in the event that the violation or violation has been completed and prevent them from being resubmitted.
3. Promotion. Measures that the State generates for the effective realization and exercise of the rights of young people.
4. Sanction. Measures generated by the State to impose corrective measures on State officials or individuals who participate in acts or situations of threat, violation and/or violation of the rights of young people, thereby ensuring that they are not repeated and the full exercise of the rights enshrined in the Constitution, international treaties and national law.
5. Access. Attribute of human rights, according to which the State must generate the necessary guarantees, means and channels and not prevent them so that a citizen will enjoy in full every one of his rights.
6. Availability. Attribute of human rights, according to which the State must facilitate the physical and institutional infrastructure, which guarantees the effective enjoyment of the rights, in the moments and quality in which each citizen exercises them.
7. permanency. Attribute of human rights, according to which the State generates the mechanisms and strategies conducive to ensuring the enjoyment and exercise of the right during the time and the optimal conditions on the part of the citizens.
8. Quality. An attribute of human rights, according to which the State guarantees that the enjoyment and exercise of rights by citizens is achieved through suitable means.
9. Sustainability. Attribute of human rights, according to which the State guarantees that the measures and strategies undertaken for the effective enjoyment of the rights are maintained in time complying with the attributes of access, availability, permanence and quality of every right.
10. Participation. Attribute of human rights, according to which the State guarantees the existence and use of mechanisms of consultation and decision of citizens in relation to the enjoyment and effective exercise of rights.
ARTICLE 8o. MEASURES TO PREVENT, PROTECT, PROMOTE AND GUARANTEE THE RIGHTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE. The State in coordination with civil society will gradually and progressively implement the following measures of prevention, protection, promotion and sanction, aimed at ensuring the full exercise of the youth citizenship that allows young people to realize their project of life and participate in equal rights and duties in the social, political, economic and cultural life of the country:
Prevention measures:
1. Train officials in general and especially those with functions of public attention in non-discriminatory treatment and recognition of young people as persons subject to rights and duties.
2. Design and implement strategies to recognize the diversity of young people in co-living manuals and regulations of educational institutions.
3. Generate family planning educational campaigns aimed at young men and women.
4. Young people are entitled to full enjoyment of their sexual and reproductive health, and the State will create policies for prevention, training and information with a differential and responsibility approach.
5. Generate differential analysis categories in the security and crime observatories, which account for the practices of human rights violations against young people, and propose to the Ombudsman's Office, within the System of Alerts Early on, the establishment of an indicator and categories of analysis to prevent crimes against young people and to ensure protection measures in time and place.
6. Design, implement and follow up on prevention and protection programmes for young people.
Protective measures:
1. Ensure that young people with HIV AIDS remain in the education system of young people in pregnancy.
2. Ensure comprehensive protection measures for young people with disabilities.
3. Provide the necessary assistance in time and quality in case of abandonment.
4. Develop strategies to ensure safety in working conditions and fair remuneration.
5. Provide differential seclusion spaces for young offenders of criminal law.
6. Ensure the access and quality of services to support the demands of the rights of the youth and the effective use of the mechanisms of citizen defense.
7. The State in relation to digital citizenship will ensure respect for habeas data.
8. The State protects and promotes the right of young people to form and belong to an organizational process or practice and to collectively exercise the right to participate.
Promotion Measures:
1. To establish mechanisms to promote quality work and working conditions, and to strengthen mechanisms for employment orientation and insertion.
2. Design and implement programs to promote entrepreneurship for the creation of companies in various sectors by the youth, facilitating access to credit, venture capital and seed capital. And with special accompaniment from the different state entities.
3. Develop training programs for young people to acquire knowledge and skills in the field of formulation and execution of productive projects.
4. To make it easier for young people to have access, availability and equal participation in housing policies.
5. Organize a work bag, through which work activities can be identified that can be performed by young people and guarantee their dissemination and accompaniment for the insertion of work.
6. Promote and finance intergenerational and intergender, driven and youth-related activities.
7. The State must guarantee access, availability, permanence and quality in primary health care with a differential approach, in addition to ensuring its participation in the decision-making spaces of the country's health system.
8. To promote a standardized system of differential rates for the use of public transportation by the young and in less favorable economic conditions, which guarantees the enjoyment of their right to the enjoyment of the public space.
9. Design and implement a comprehensive policy of inclusion, recognition and promotion of youth citizenship in rural areas, with a differential approach.
10. To ensure the participation of young people in the situation of disability in educational, recreational, cultural, artistic, intellectual, leisure and sporting activities, on an equal footing, as well as making accessible the places or scenarios in which these activities are developed.
11. Promote the active inclusion of young people in the processes of creation, circulation, research and cultural appropriation.
12. Promote access, permanence, use and enjoyment of public facilities and public space.
13. Promote the destination of special slots for youth programs whose contents are developed with participation of young people.
14. To promote the institutions that work and coexist with young people, establish mechanisms for access and participation of young people in decision-making of these institutions.
15. The State will promote policies, plans and projects from the human and differential security approach that promote coexistence and peace. In this sense, it will promote the creation of spaces for the participation of youth in the construction of a culture of peace.
16. The State will promote intergenerational and training encounters by young people for parents, teachers, public forces, justice operators and public officials on youth dynamics and exercise of rights.
17. To promote and support creative spaces for the participation and organization of civil society youth, linked to processes of social transformation and the construction of peace cultures.
18. Promote second-chance policies for young offenders of the criminal law that promote their reintegration into society in conditions of equality and non-discrimination.
19. The State must promote in young people the knowledge and progressive appropriation of democratic practices and in this sense recognize, value and use the legal instruments for the enforceability of their rights.
20. To promote, within the framework of the Houses of Justice, a line of support for exchanges of experiences and practices of justice between processes and organizational practices of young people.
21. Implement the program of youth justice-friendly services with an emphasis on the promotion of human rights and knowledge of rights in the framework of criminal law violations with emphasis on: a. Receive guidance, legal advice and legal technical assistance free of charge, immediate and specialized for the presumption of having committed or participating in the occurrence of a punishable fact.
22. Receive clear, complete, truthful and timely information regarding their rights and the mechanisms and procedures established according to age and type of act punishable in understandable and respectful language.
23. Receive primary health care (diagnosis, prevention, healing and rehabilitation, psychological, specialized and comprehensive psychiatric) at any stage of the process.
24. Ensure quality education, creating the necessary conditions to make it accessible to young people, within the framework of laws.
25. To generate stimuli that guarantee the permanence of young people in basic, secondary, technical, and university general education programs.
26. Ensure education in equal conditions of quality and of the highest level for all young people.
27. Ensure the design and implementation of programs to promote and access information and communications technologies throughout the country, with a differential approach.
28. Recognize and promote new forms and dynamics of production, management and dissemination of information and knowledge, arising from collective constructions with the participation of young people.
29. Provide timely and effective care for young people by public servants and servants.
30. The State will guarantee the implementation of rural education strategies, adjusted to the territorial and social context, under the differential approach, which guarantee the access and permanence of rural youth, on equal opportunities.
31. It will create the youth portal of the country in charge of the governing body of the national youth system with information from all sectors and links to each one of the State institutions. The portal will include information on the supply and demand of services to guarantee the rights expressed in this law with the possibility for the processes and organizational practices of the youth to include information of their own for public consultation. All social organizations and public institutions of a municipal, departmental and national nature, which develop programs and projects with young people, will have to register updated information in the portal on supply and demand, lines of work and policy implementation indicators to ensure the participation and social control of young people.
32. The State entities of the municipal, district, departmental, and national order will undertake to generate complementary measures that contribute to the generation of knowledge from the youth and their processes and organizational practices.
33. The National Government shall define the mechanisms and procedures for the identification and monitoring of young people in the condition of disability, of ethnic communities, of rural origin, identified at level 1 and 2 of the Sisben, which have successfully completed their secondary studies and seek to develop higher education studies to ensure access, availability, permanence and quality in higher education institutions, without the detriment of scholarships which can be awarded to the best State test scores in this institution.
34. To promote the conditions for the free and effective participation of young people in political, social, economic and cultural development.
35. To promote, promote and articulate instruments to support the partnership between young people and to guarantee the capacity of young people to be involved.
36. To promote the ways and practices of young people, networking, articulation, coordination and complementarity between processes and organizational practices, and among young people and public and private institutions.
37. Recognize and promote the virtual and symbolic spaces of the organization and participation of the youth.
38. Political parties and movements must promote youth organizations within the community, respecting their autonomy, voice and vote in the party's decisions.
39. The national government and the territorial authorities, in accordance with the principle of autonomy, must guarantee resources and mechanisms to promote and strengthen the association and participation of young people.
40. To promote and recognize the work of the community of young people and their organizations as a fundamental contribution to the development of society and promotes the generation of a series of incentives for volunteering linked to community processes.
41. To ensure the participation of young people and their processes and organizational practices in areas such as work, education, community, family, sports, religious, environmental and business.
42. The State will design the mechanisms to ensure young people:
a) Access to relevant, up-to-date and differential information.
b) The creation of spaces for dialogue and reflection, between civil society and the state.
c) The freedom to express opinions on a level playing field and without age discrimination in settings arranged for public deliberation.
d) Recognition of young people; and their processes and organizational practices in processes, from during the stages of diagnosis, formulation and implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects, programs and policies.
ARTICLE 9o. order to guarantee the fulfillment of the rights described and the obligations of the State in relation to them, the Public Ministry in the framework of its constitutional and legal powers will generate a mechanism of monitoring of territorial entities and institutions of the national order for compliance with this law and all those affecting young people, conceptualizing their applicability and monitoring their implementation in the established cases.
PARAGRAFO. The dependency responsible for the coordination of youth in the Nation and in each territorial entity, will convene a public hearing of accountability of a mandatory character each year on the inclusion of young people in, as well as the progress of public youth policy. The hearing shall involve the public authorities of all branches of public power, as well as the control bodies, and shall be headed by the Mayor, Governor or President of the Republic, respectively.
DUTIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
ARTICLE 10. " THE DUTIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE. Los and young people in Colombia have a duty to abide by the Constitution and the laws; to respect the rights of others, to act with the criterion of solidarity and co-responsibility; to respect the authorities legitimately constituted; participate in the social, civic, political, economic and community life of the country; monitor and control the management and destination of public resources; collaborate with the functioning of justice, protect resources natural and cultural and contribute to the construction of social and institutional capital. It is the duty of the State to facilitate the young conditions that enable him to fulfill his duties in a qualified and qualified manner.
YOUTH POLICIES.
ARTICLE 11. YOUTH POLICY. By Youth policy, the permanent process of articulation and development of principles, actions and strategies that guide the activity of the State and society for the promotion, protection and realization of the youth must be understood. of the rights of young people, as well as to generate the necessary conditions so that in a dignified, autonomous, responsible and transcendent way, they exercise their citizenship through the realization of individual and collective life projects.
In compliance with this law, youth policies will be formulated and incorporated at all territorial levels, guaranteeing the budget allocation of its own, specific and differentiated destination in the development plans.
The formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of youth policies should be participatory, articulated to other public policies, and respond to needs, problems, expectations, capabilities, potential and interests. of the young Colombian population.
ARTICLE 12. MAINSTREAMING OF YOUTH POLICIES. Youth Policies will be transversal to the administrative and programmatic structure of each Territorial and Nation entity. Its implementation will focus on incorporating youth issues into each of the sectoral public policies and actions. The Youth Policies do not replace other sectoral or population policies of the territorial or national order, but they support them and articulate for the achievement of objectives in relation to the youth.
ARTICLE 13. GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC YOUTH POLICIES.
Under the development of Title II established in this law, the Youth Public Policy will be formulated taking into account mainly the protection and guarantee for the exercise and enjoyment of the rights of the youth, affirmation of the youth status, and young people as strategic actors for development, and in accordance with the guidelines to be agreed in the framework of the National Youth System.
ARTICLE 14. PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC YOUTH POLICIES. The formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Youth Public Policies should be guided by the following basic principles:
1. Inclusion. Recognize the diversity of youth in aspects such as their socioeconomic, cultural, vulnerability, and gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, origin, religion and opinion.
2. Participation. Ensure the necessary processes, scenarios, instruments and stimuli for the participation and decision of young people about solutions to their needs and the satisfaction of their expectations as citizens, subjects of rights and agents of their own development.
3. Corresponsibility. Holds the responsibility for both the youth and the society and the State in each of the stages of formulation, implementation and monitoring of the policy.
4. Integrality. Address all dimensions of the youth as well as the social, political, economic, cultural, sports and environmental contexts where they are developed.
5. Projection. Set goals and goals in the medium and long term through the development of specific plans, programs, projects and actions. Each territorial entity shall generate these implementation actions for a period not less than four (4) years.
6. Territoriality. Set criteria for their application in a differentiated manner and in accordance with the different physical, political, symbolic and environmental territories from which the and the young come from.
7. Complementarity. Articulate other population and sectoral policies in order to achieve the inter-institutional integration necessary for the development of actions and goals aimed at young people taking into account the life cycle, avoiding duplicity of actions and the detriment of public resources.
8. Decentralization. Regular actions for each level of implementation in the organization of the State, in order to ensure the efficient use of resources and the deconcentration of functions.
9. Evaluation. Define permanent monitoring and evaluation tools and indicators, while recognizing the externalities of the implementation process and the transformation of the needs of young people.
10. Broadcast. To regulate the mechanisms necessary to achieve the knowledge and appropriation of public policy by young people, the state and society.
ARTICLE 15. COMPETENCIES. The competence for the design and execution of youth policies, and their budgetary allocation are the responsibility of the Territorial Entities and the Nation in the field of their competencies, according to the criteria of autonomy, decentralisation and the principles of competition, subsidiarity and complementarity. Young people will actively participate in the process of building public policies at the local, departmental and national levels, as well as exercising control over their implementation and implementation through the mechanisms established by law.
PARAGRAFO 1o. The President of the Republic, the Governors and Mayors, within the framework of their competencies, will be responsible for the inclusion of Youth Policies within the Development Plans. corresponding.
PARAGRAFO 2o. The President of the Republic, the Governors and the Mayors, should include in their development plans sufficient resources and the mechanisms conducive to ensuring the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public youth policies, youth development plans and/or operational plans that will provide technical and financial support for the implementation of the policies formulated for the guarantee of rights in accordance with the State in which these policies are found in the territorial entity. All this is without detriment to the complementarity and collaboration between the Nation and the territorial authorities must exist.
PARAGRAFO 3o. Each territorial entity must generate the policy implementation plans for a period of no less than four (4) years.
ARTICLE 16. GENERAL POWERS. The departmental, district and municipal territorial entities within the framework of this law shall have the following powers:
1. Establish at the departmental and local level an organizational structure with a dependency (secretariat, management, office, etc.) with political, technical, financial and administrative capacity to coordinate and articulate the policy actions that guarantee the effective enjoyment of the rights of the youth, and that it is also articulated to the youth system.
2. To establish and implement a policy agenda aimed at guaranteeing the rights of young people and their recognition as development enhancers, with the participation of this population, civil society organizations, and cooperation and control bodies.
3. Ensure the continuous and sustained allocation of physical, technical, human and financial resources to enable the functioning of the youth system and the implementation of public policies, plans, programmes and projects for the (i) the right to enjoy the rights of young people.
4. Make strategic agreements and alliances to link young people in processes that enable them to qualify their technical and professional performance, guarantee their rights and improve their quality of life.
5. Ensure the organization, promotion and training of youth associations, respecting their autonomy to constitute democratic mechanisms of representation in the different instances of participation, consultation, control and surveillance of the public administration to be established.
6. Promote, encourage and encourage the participation of young people to integrate the Municipal Councils of Youth in the shortest possible time, in addition to having the resources, to support their effective and real functioning. To ensure the creation and consolidation of youth veedurias to social public expenditure in the various territorial areas.
7. To promote the training, training, training and updating of their officials, so that they can comply with the protection of the rights of young people.
8. Establish intergenerational dialogue scenarios for young people to strengthen their status and youth identity, regain their territorial roots, identify and understand lessons learned in youth affairs and enhance or develop capacities for the socio-historical understanding of their departmental and municipal context and their relationship with the national and international fields.
9. Develop differentiated actions for young people, victims of armed conflict, and rural youth who allow the return and development of the youth that inhabited and/or inhabits the rural sector.
ARTICLE 17. JURISDICTION OF THE NATION. For the purposes of this law, the following are the powers of the Nation:
1. To guide, coordinate and implement public policies that allow the participation of young people in the strengthening of democracy, the guarantee of the human rights of the youth and the social and political organization of the nation.
2. To orient, coordinate and implement public policies that allow access with quality and equity of young people to the diversity of the institutional offer of the State in relation to the guarantee and the effective enjoyment of their human rights.
3. To provide information, advice and assistance to departments, districts and municipalities in the formulation and implementation of their territorial policies that establish actions for the guarantee of the rights of young people.
4. To qualify from the rights and differential approach programmes, plans, political agendas, projects and social investment aimed at guaranteeing the rights of young people and in particular to young people in a situation of displacement forced.
5. Implement in the different territorial areas, strategies for the training of the human talent responsible for the guarantee of the rights of the youth, with greater emphasis on the departmental administration and regional organizations.
6. To lead alliances with organizations and national and international entities of a public, private and mixed nature that contribute to the guarantee and fulfillment of the rights of young people.
7. Generate a system of information, generation of specialized knowledge, monitoring and national, regional, departmental, district and local evaluation on the implementation of public policies and social investment in favor of the guarantee of the rights of young people.
8. To promote the formulation, implementation and evaluation of youth policies with an approach to ethnic and intercultural rights and differential that respect the particularities of these groups.
ARTICLE 18. DEPARTMENTS COMPETENCIES. They are the competencies of the departments, among others, the following:
1. Design, execute, evaluate and report on public policy, political agendas and the Decennial Plan of Youth for the departmental and municipal areas.
2. Coordinate and advise the design and implementation of municipal youth policies.
3. Facilitate the participation of young people in the processes of advocacy and decision-making in the development of the department and in the inclusion of actions, strategies and investment for the guarantee of the rights of young people in politics sectorial.
4. To investigate, know and feed the national youth information system in terms of reality and advanced actions for the guarantee of the rights of young people in the Department.
5. To investigate and validate in their territory their own models of participation, inclusion in services and goods, in the generation of opportunities for the guarantee of the rights of young people and inform the Nation.
6. To accompany the municipalities in the design of an offer of programs, processes and services for the guarantee of the rights of the youth and in the achievement and mobilization of resources their execution and sustainability.
7. Implement strategies for strengthening the capacities of young people as subjects of rights and protagonists of local development.
8. To lead the formation of regional networks for the implementation of public policies and social investment for the guarantee of the rights of young people.
9. Consolidate the social and institutional capital at the departmental, municipal level towards the management of resources favorable to the implementation of programs with and for the youth.
10. To lead regional alliances with public, private and mixed entities and bodies that contribute to the guarantee and fulfillment of the rights of young people.
11. Develop in coordination with the national level the system of information, monitoring and evaluation of public policies and social investment for the guarantee of the rights of young people.
12. Establish with municipalities or other departments lines of co-financing to enable the implementation of projects and programmes, aimed at strengthening regional identity, cultural, ethnic and gender diversity of young people, and consolidation of spaces for dialogue and intergenerational coexistence.
13. To develop departmental pacts for inclusion, coexistence and transparency among young people and institutions as ethical benchmarks for the strengthening of the social rule of law and the dynamization of the departmental youth system.
14. To ensure in a joint manner with the territorial entities of the municipal order the election and creation and strengthening of the Municipal Councils of Youth and the Departmental Council of Youth.
ARTICLE 19. COMPETENCIES OF THE MUNICIPALITIES AND DISTRICTS. They are the competencies of the Municipality and the Districts, among others, the following:
1. To design, implement, evaluate and account for public policy and social investment aimed at guaranteeing the rights of young people in the respective territorial area.
2. Facilitate the participation of young people in the planning of the development of their municipality or district, and in the development of policy and social investment actions aimed at guaranteeing the rights of young people in the respective territorial area.
3. To investigate, know and feed the national youth information system from the reality of the municipality or district.
4. To investigate and validate in their territory their own models of participation, guarantee of the rights of the youth, inclusion in the institutional offer of the State, in the generation of opportunities and capacities in the youth, and report advances to the department.
5. Design a programmatic offer for young people in the municipality or district to execute directly or through alliances, agreements with governmental, non-governmental institutions and companies that develop offer at the municipal level or district.
6. Promote effective competition to avoid duplicity of actions between the nation, the department, and the municipality or district.
7. Implement strategies for strengthening the capacities of young people as subjects of rights and protagonists of local or district development.
8. To lead municipal or district alliances with private sector entities to guarantee the rights of young people.
9. Develop a system of information, monitoring and evaluation in coordination with the departmental system.
10. Implement specific programs and projects in co-financing with the department.
11. To develop municipal pacts for inclusion, coexistence and transparency among young people and institutions as ethical benchmarks for the strengthening of the social rule of law and the dynamization of the municipal or district youth system.
12. To ensure in a joint manner with the territorial entity of the departmental order the election, creation and strengthening of the municipal or district councils of youth and the Departmental Council of Youth.
ARTICLE 20. PROCEDURES AND DEADLINES FOR THE FORMULATION OF YOUTH POLICIES. The municipalities, districts, departments and the Nation, taking into account territorial autonomy, will formulate or update in a coordinated way and with a participatory nature. public youth policies, based on differential criteria for territories and contexts. For this purpose they must take into account the following:
1. The municipalities will start the formulation of the public policies of youth within six (6) months from the election of the Municipal Councils of Youth.
2. The departments will initiate the formulation of departmental public policies within nine (9) months of the election of the Municipal Youth Councils. The departments are obliged to provide technical assistance to the municipalities, thus guaranteeing coordination, complementarity and co-responsibility for the formulation of municipal public policies for youth and the departmental.
3. The districts will have the same time provided by the departments to advance the formulation of their public policies of youth under the understanding that even though they are not obliged to generate public policy of youth by locality or commune, If it is necessary to address the diversity of each of these territories, and reflect it in operational plans that make explicit the differentiated investment that will be implemented for the guarantee of rights of the young people who live in their territories.
4. The Nation will initiate the formulation of national public policy of youth within twelve (12) months, counted from the election of municipal youth counselors. The Nation is obliged to provide technical assistance to the departments thus guaranteeing coordination, complementarity and co-responsibility for the formulation of municipal, district, departmental and national public policies.
PARAGRAFO. Where public policy of approved youth is concerned, it will have to be reviewed and updated from an approach that allows the public policy and social investment actions to be established in a differential manner. guarantee of the rights of young people; as well as to disseminate in an expeditious manner, within a period of not less than three (3) months from the sanction of this law.
ARTICLE 21. REPORTING. The entities responsible for youth in the territorial entities and the governing body of the National Youth System, will present respectively the municipal and district councils, the Departmental Assemblies and the Congress of the Republic, an annual report on the progress, budget implementation and implementation of the Youth Policy.
NATIONAL YOUTH SYSTEM.
ARTICLE 22. NATIONAL YOUTH SYSTEM. It is the set of actors, processes, instances, orientations, legal tools, agendas, plans, programs, and projects, which operativies the law and policies related to youth, through the creation and strengthening of relations between the State, civil society, the family, public, private, mixed and youth entities and their processes and organizational practices for the guarantee, fulfilment, enjoyment or effective restoration of the rights of youth, the expansion of their capacities and their opportunities for access to comprehensive and sustainable development.
ARTICLE 23. ROLE OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH SYSTEM. The National Youth System will be in charge of promoting the fulfilment of rights and greater opportunities for young people, of coordinating the execution, monitoring and evaluation of the Public policy and national and local youth plans, to administer the National Youth Information System, to carry out intersectoral coordination and national and territorial entities in order to achieve recognition of the youth as a strategic development actor, massively mobilizing young people around to the fight against corruption, among others.
ARTICLE 24. CONFORMATION OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH SYSTEM. The National Youth System consists of:
1. Institutional subsystem of the Youth
1.1 The National Council for Youth Public Policy
1.2 Dependencies of the Juventudes of the Territorial Entities
2. Subsystem of Youth Participation
2.1 Processes and organizational practices of young people
2.2 Youth participation spaces
2.3 Youth Councils
2.4 Youth Platforms
2.5 Youth Assemblies
3. Commission of Concertation and Decision
INSTITUTIONAL SUBSYSTEM OF THE YOUTH.
ARTICLE 25. THE INSTITUTIONAL SUBSYSTEM OF THE YOUTH. The Institutional Subsystem of the National Youth System, is made up of the National Council for Public Policy of Youth and the instances created in the territorial entities for the youth.
ARTICLE 26. NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY COUNCIL. The National Youth Policy Council is the body responsible for articulating the definition, monitoring and evaluation of policies for prevention, protection, promotion and guarantee of the rights of young people at the National level.
PARAGRAFO. For the purposes of this law, the National Council for Economic and Social Policy-Conpes-will do the times of the National Youth Policy Council.
ARTICLE 27. CONFORMATION OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PUBLIC POLICIES OF YOUTH. The National Council for Public Policy of Youth will be shaped like this:
1. President of the Republic or his delegate.
2. The Director of the National Planning Department or its delegate.
3. The Minister of the Interior or his delegate
4. The Director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute or its delegate.
5. The Director of the National Service of Learning-SENA- or its delegate.
6. Three (3) representatives of the National Youth Council, who will be elected by it, according to their internal regulations.
The Council shall be chaired by the President of the Republic or its delegate.
ARTICLE 28. FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY COUNCIL. The National Council for Youth Public Policy:
1. Formulate, promote and evaluate the creation of comprehensive policies, plans and programs for the development of young people, considering in the same way the guidelines and areas established in the national and international legislation in force;
2. Define the lines of action to be followed by the National Youth System;
3. Design mechanisms for implementation of actions in relation to other system actors and monitoring and evaluation by results;
4. Ensure visibility, information and promotion of the inclusion of youth in each of the sectors of government;
5. Manage the technical and economic assistance of national and international governments, public and private institutions for the performance of their functions and attributions;
6. Promote and strengthen mechanisms and procedures for the promotion and development of the rights of young people;
7. Establish mechanisms for monitoring, evaluating and promoting policies, plans, programmes and projects relating to the rights of young people to be developed at national level;
8. Coordinate actions with governmental and non-governmental, national and international agencies and with the private sector for the implementation of youth policies;
9. Propose mechanisms and strategies that link young people in spaces, instances and decision-making processes of a sectoral and territorial nature;
10. Draw up the official annual report on the situation of young people in the country;
11. Promoting the creation and establishment of Youth Councils;
12. Promote the establishment and functioning of the National Youth Information System;
13. The others contained in the law.
ARTICLE 29. SESIONS. The National Youth Public Policy Council will meet in an ordinary manner once a year.
ARTICLE 30. TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY COUNCIL. The Technical Secretariat of the National Youth Public Policy Council will be among its functions:
1. To convene and prepare the working documents for the sessions of the National Council for Public Policy of Youth, prioritizing the planned meetings for planning, mechanisms for implementing actions in relation to other actors in the system and monitoring and evaluation by results.
2. Take the memory of the meetings and ensure the flow of information within the Council members.
3. To present to the attention of each member of the National Council of Public Policy of Youth the public agendas to guarantee their implementation in a transversal way.
4. Support the constitution of the strategic work commissions.
5. Consolidate the information and present the reports of the management of the National Council of Youth Policies, of the institutional advances by sector in the inclusion of differential information, budgets and strategies of work with young people.
ARTICLE 31. territorial entities will have an organizational structure in charge of coordinating and articulating the policy actions that guarantee the effective enjoyment of the rights of the youth, and that it is also articulated to the youth system.
YOUTH PARTICIPATION SUBSYSTEM.
ARTICLE 32. YOUTH PARTICIPATION SUBSYSTEM. It is the set of actors, instances, mechanisms, processes and agendas of the youth, and their processes and organizational practices. They are in accordance with the principle of autonomy.
YOUTH TIPS.
ARTICLE 33. YOUTH COUNCILS. The Youth Councils are autonomous mechanisms for participation, consultation, monitoring and control of the public management and dialogue of young people in relation to the territorial agendas of the youth, public institutions of each territorial entity to which they belong, and from which the agreements of the and the young must be channeled on the alternatives of solution to the needs and problems of their contexts and the visibility of its potentialities and proposals for its social, political and cultural development before the territorial and national governments.
ARTICLE 34. FUNCTIONS OF THE YOUTH COUNCILS. The National Youth Council, the Department of Youth Councils, and the District Councils, Municipal and Youth Councils, will, in their respective field, comply with the following functions:
1. To act as a valid mechanism for dialogue and consultation with the administration and public entities of the national and territorial order and with private organizations, on the issues concerning youth.
2. Propose to the respective territorial authorities, policies, plans, programmes and projects necessary for the compliance of the provisions contained in this law and other rules concerning youth, as well as to agree to their inclusion in the development plans.
3. Establish strategies and procedures for young people to participate in the design of youth-led policies, plans, programs and development projects.
4. Participate in the design and development of municipal, district, departmental and national youth agendas.
5. To conclude the inclusion of the territorial and national agendas of the youth with the respective political and administrative authorities, to be included in the plans of territorial and national development as well as in the programs and projects necessary for the implementation of the provisions contained in this law and other rules relating to youth.
6. To present half-yearly reports on their management, work and progress in public hearings, which has been widely convened and with the participation of the various institutional and youth sectors.
7. To exercise oversight and social control to development plans, public policies for youth, and to implement the territorial agendas of youth, as well as programs and projects developed for young people by the institutions. public of the territorial and national order.
8. Interact with public entities or entities that develop processes with the sector, and coordinate with them the implementation of joint actions.
9. Encourage the creation of processes and organizational practices of youth and youth movements in the respective jurisdiction;
10. To promote the promotion, integral formation and participation of the youth, in accordance with the purposes of this law and other rules that modify or supplement it.
11. Promote the dissemination, respect and exercise of the human, civil, social and political rights of the youth, as well as their duties.
12. To elect representatives to the bodies in which matters of youth are dealt with and whose regulations or statutes so provide.
13. Participate in the design and implementation of policies, programs and projects aimed at the young population in the respective territorial entities.
14. Interact with the bodies or entities that develop the youth issue and coordinate the implementation of joint actions.
15. Participate in the dissemination and knowledge of this law.
16. It is the commitment of the youth councils after they have been constituted, to present a unified plan of work that will orient their management during the period for which they were elected.
17. Convene and regulate the Municipal and Local Municipal Youth Platforms.
18. Choose delegates to other instances and participation spaces.
19. Adopt its own rules of procedure of organisation and operation.
ARTICLE 35. NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL. The National Youth Council will be integrated as follows:
1. One (1) delegate from each of the Department of Youth Councils.
2. One (1) delegate from each of the District Youth Councils.
3. One (1) representative of the organizational processes and practices of the young peasants.
4. One (1) representative of the indigenous communities.
5. One (1) representative of Afro-Colombian communities.
6. Un (1) representative of the village rom.
7. One (1) representative of the communities of San Andrés and Providencia.
PARAGRAFO 1o. Young delegates to the district, departmental and youth councils will have a one-year term and may be re-elected for a single additional period.
PARAGRAFO 2o. The representative of the indigenous, Afro-Colombian, Rom and San Andrés and Providencia communities will be elected according to the communities ' procedures.
ARTICLE 36. CALL OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL. Within one hundred and fifty (150) days following the election of the Departmental Councils of Youth, the entity designated or created by the National Government for Youth, will convene the conformation of the National Youth Council.
ARTICLE 37. DEPARTMENTAL YOUTH COUNCILS. The Department of Youth Councils will be composed of delegates from the Municipal and District Councils of Youth.
PARAGRAFO. The Youth Departmental Councils will meet in ordinary two (2) times a year and in an extraordinary manner according to the internal regulations to be built.
ARTICLE 38. CALL AND COMPOSITION OF THE DEPARTMENTAL YOUTH COUNCILS. Within sixty (60) days following the election of the Municipal Youth Councils, the governors will convene the conformation of the Departmental Council of Youth. Youth.
Departmental Youth Councils will be integrated by an odd number, not less than five (5) and no more than fifteen (15) members, delegates from the Municipal and District Youth Councils, except the Capital District.
PARAGRAFO. On the basis of a call made by the Governor, each Municipal and District Council of Youth of the respective jurisdiction, will appoint a delegate to form the Departmental Council of Youth. If the case is to be presented, in which the number of delegated members exceeds the maximum number of members to be included in the Departmental Youth Council, the governor will convene in each of the provinces of his department, conformed assemblies constituted by the Municipal and District Councils of Youth, belonging to municipalities and districts that make up it. In each of the assemblies, the number of councilors will be chosen among them, according to the provisions of the governor, whose criteria must be due to the number of municipalities and their population density.
In departments with fewer than five (5) Municipal and District Youth Councils, there may be more than one delegate per board.
ARTICLE 39. LOCAL AND DISTRICT COUNCILS OF YOUTH. In accordance with the administrative arrangements of the districts, Local Councils of Youth will be formed, which will be governed by the provisions for the Municipal Councils of Youth, contained in this law.
The District Youth Councils will be integrated by one (1) delegate from each of the local youth councils.
PARAGRAFO 1o. The District Council of Youth of Bogotá, D. C., will be composed of one (1) delegate from each of the Local Youth Councils.
ARTICLE 40. CALL AND COMPOSITION OF THE DISTRICT YOUTH COUNCILS. In accordance with the administrative regime of the District, within thirty (30) days following the election of the Local Councils of Youth, the Mayors of Districts make up the District Youth Council at the rate of one delegate for each locality or commune as appropriate.
ARTICLE 41. MUNICIPAL YOUTH COUNCILS. In each of the municipalities of the national territory, a Municipal Youth Council will be formed, consisting of young people from independent youth lists, processes and organizational practices. young people formally constituted, and young people from the political parties elected by popular and direct vote of the youth.
PARAGRAFO 1o. In municipalities and localities where there are youth organizations of campesinos, indigenous communities, Afro-Colombians, rom, San Andrés and Providencia, or in general ethnic communities, Each territorial entity shall elect a representative of these communities. At this event, there will be one more member on the Youth Council for each such community.
PARAGRAFO 2o. The Municipal Youth Councils will meet at least one (1) a month in an ordinary way and in an extraordinary manner according to the internal regulations to be built.
PARAGRAFO 3o. The total number of Youth Municipal or Local Council members must always be odd, including the special ethnic representation that is regulated in this article. In the event which of the enlarged composition will result in number torque, it will be increased or decreased by one (1) member as set out in article 49, without deviating from the minimum or maximum range fixed there.
