Chajinelab
Chajinelab, or Chajineles Councils, are spaces for citizen participation consisting of representatives of the municipalities, members of non-governmental organizations, and members of the Community Development Councils, who are elected during assemblies. The purpose of these councils is the co-management of regional parks, protected areas and natural resources in five areas of the department of Sololá. Their participation is expressed through the ideation, planning and execution of projects related to forest protection and ecotourism. These representative and administrative councils are called Chajinel, a word that means "protector" in the Mayan Kiche language.
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
- regular
- 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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