Institutional framework
The Ministry of Planning and Development, established in 2006, is the body permanently in charge of population and development issues; it also presides over the National Commission, a provisional inter-institutional coordination mechanism created specifically for the implementation and follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus. The Commission operates on the basis of inter-ministerial cooperation that spans the different issues addressed by the Montevideo Consensus: education; health; human rights, gender violence, children, adolescents and youth, older persons and people with disabilities; human mobility; Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants. The seven ministries involved in the mechanism, in addition to the Ministry of Planning and Development, are: the Ministry of Education; Ministry of Health and Sports; Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency; Ministry of the Interior; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Culture, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization.
Participation
No specific mechanism is outlined for civil society participation in the implementation and follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus.
The information on Institutionality comes from the regional survey for the update of the Virtual Platform for the follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, implemented by the technical secretariat in 2023.