Popular Consultation - No to Dams
The Popular Consultation organized by the Provincial "No to Dams" Board was convened by this group of citizens and organizations to express repudiation and avoid the creation of new mega dams in the Guaraní Aquifer. This consultation tried to supplant the binding plebiscite that establishes the Law as a requirement for the execution of hydroelectric projects and dams, thus giving public visibility to non-compliance with the Law. The implementation of the consultation was preceded by a multitude of information and activities of rejection as organized by Mesa, which is composed of 46 civil and social organizations from different origins and with diverse positions, such as: indigenous, rural poor, trade union, human rights organizations, Churches (Evangelical, Lutheran and Catholic), among others.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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