Municipal Commissions for Food and Nutritional Security (COMUSAN)
The Municipal Commissions for Food and Nutritional Security (COMUSAN) were created within the framework of the National Policy for Food and Nutritional Security with the objective of monitoring compliance with this policy and its strategic plan. COMUSAN is responsible for planning and coordinating activities related to food and nutritional security at the municipal level. The commission is composed of representatives from the public sector, civil society, community commissions, and groups of women, youth, indigenous peoples, and farmers.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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