CONAPAM submits regulations for funds for assaulted older women to public consultation

The National Council for the Older Person (CONAPAM) opened this Monday the public consultation for the draft Regulation for the control of funds transferred by the National Council for the Older Person to private entities that develop the care modality called: Older persons who have been assaulted or are in a situation of abandonment. The notice is signed by the executive director Kennly Garza Sánchez and was published in La Gaceta No. 212 on November 9, 2026, Miscellaneous Documents section, with the official reference IN202601137754. Interested parties have ten business days to submit comments or observations on the text.

The call is made in accordance with Article 361 of Law No. 6227, General Law of Public Administration, a regulation that requires draft regulations to be submitted for consultation with interested sectors before their final approval. The notice appears under the heading of the Presidency of the Republic in the copy of the official gazette, corresponding to Year CXLVIII, number 212, consisting of 68 pages.

Deadline and channels for submitting observations

The deadline is ten business days starting from the day following the publication of the notice in the official gazette, that is, from Tuesday, November 10, 2026. With that calculation, the consultation period expires on Monday, November 23, 2026.

Contributions can be submitted through three channels:

• In person, at the CONAPAM Legal Advisory Unit, Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 16:00 hours.
• By email, to the address uaj@conapam.go.cr.
• By consulting the text at the address https://conapam.go.cr/consulta/, from where the review of the project is channeled.

The notice does not specify a particular form or additional technical requirements for the observations, nor does it establish whether the consultation is binding or non-binding.

Where the project can be read

The full text of the draft regulation is available at the CONAPAM Legal Advisory Unit during the indicated office hours and on the institutional website enabled for the consultation. The publication in La Gaceta is limited to the call for consultation: it does not reproduce the articles of the regulation, therefore the normative content can only be accessed through those two channels.

Who the regulation affects

The regulation is aimed at private entities that receive transfers from CONAPAM to operate the care modality for older persons who have been assaulted or are in a situation of abandonment. The scope reached includes:

• Non-governmental organizations and associations that implement this modality of care using public funds.
• Executing entities that administer resources transferred by CONAPAM for the shelter, care, and attention of older persons who are victims of aggression or abandonment.
• The internal control and accountability structures of these organizations, which would be subject to the supervision mechanisms defined by the new regulation.

This is a sensitive link in the care network: these are the entities that receive and execute public money without being part of the active administration, and therefore their regulation determines how those resources are disbursed, controlled, and audited.

The closing of the consultation opens the decisive stage for the sector: what is observed in these ten business days will define the accountability obligations, the controls over the use of funds and, ultimately, the conditions under which organizations can continue caring for the assaulted or abandoned elderly population. Interested organizations that do not submit observations within the deadline will lose the opportunity to influence the text that will apply to their agreements.

Source: La Gaceta, No. 212, Monday, November 9, 2026, Miscellaneous Documents, p. 2 (official reference: IN202601137754).