Indigenous Table on Climate Change in Guatemala (MICCG)
The Indigenous Table on Climate Change in Guatemala emerged from the necessity to create a space for dialogue between the different State branches and indigenous organizations, for the design and development of public policies, and to prepare the national positioning for the COP-21. This participation initiative also represents the country in the Global Committee of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change. Guatemala is one of the 18 countries that holds 70% of the world's biodiversity, and the Mayan, Garífuna and Xinca cosmovision is strongly linked to this biological diversity. Therefore, ancestral practices and traditional knowledge, in addition to the sustainable livelihoods of indigenous peoples, are crucial for the conservation of the environment. The proposals agreed upon in this dialogue table, which propose conservation through traditional and non-industrial methods, were presented in November, 2015 during the "Workshop on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples" and the "Forum on Community Lands and Management Regulations of Indigenous or Community-driven Collectively Managed Areas", organized by the same Table. On these occasions, lines of action were also discussed to carry out a proposed Law on the Management Category of Indigenous or Community-driven Collectively Managed Areas.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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