Promotion and Coordination of Social Dialogue for Water Resource Management and Sanitation in the Municipality of San Gaspar Chajul
The institutional strengthening project: "Promotion and Coordination of Social Dialogue for Water Resource Management and Sanitation in the Municipality of San Gaspar Chajul" was carried out by the IPADE Foundation and the Maya Ixil Kab'laval Chee Association in collaboration with the municipality of Chajul and other local and international stakeholders. The project consisted in the creation and strengthening of a Municipal Office, a Network, and a Municipal Water and Sanitation Bureau for the coordinated implementation of the Decentralization Law. The creation of dialogue spaces for community and municipal institutions has as its objective the joint and efficient management of water resources, as well as the improvement of water services, considering that "the decentralization of water management in Guatemala has led to a lack of coordination and vision" (Zambrano, 2011). The project was carried out in 5 different phases: preparation of preconditions, diagnosis, generation of proposals and capacity building, validation and institutionalization of the strategic plan, and implementation and feedback. The Local Security Boards (Span. JLS) first emerged in 1999 as an inclusive response by the National Civil Police to the postwar violence that persists in Guatemalan society.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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