Self-convened Assemblies against Mining
The Self-convened Assemblies against Mining are regular meetings between neighbors and organizations that have been developing since 2003, in small and medium localities in the area bordering the Andes, which extends throughout several Argentine provinces. Its central objective is to deliberate on different alternatives to get their claims against the mega-mining operations that were being initiated or planned for these regions. Some of them carried out plebiscites, consultations, marches, meetings with politicians, forums, etc. In some provinces, the demands, claims and rejections carried out by these assemblies led to political processes of regulation and limitation of open pit mining.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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