Citizen Environmental Assembly of Gualeguaychú
The Citizen Environmental Assembly of Gualeguaychú was the result of a self-convened event that articulated different social, economic and political groups under the motto "No a las Papeleras", in response to the placement of paper-manufacturing plants on the Uruguay River, and as a consequence of the ecological, sanitary and social conflict that this would represent for the inhabitants of the river. From this same space numerous protests and road blockades were convened in an indeterminate manner, from programmed and progressive blockades to blockades of an unfixed time, making regular marches to the border to express their disagreement. This Assembly was constituted with the central objective to diffuse problematic environmental issues, for the rejection and revocation of permit licenses and the elevation of demands to the Argentinean, Uruguayan and Finnish governments involved.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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