Land Forums and Boards
The Land Forums and Boards are spaces for deliberation and exchange between public authorities, social groups, religious sectors and NGOs (national and international), aimed at generating proposals, demands and protests with the objective of directly influencing land distribution policies and the creation of housing. They mainly promote proposals that develop sustainable production models, including rural poor families and stimulate the debate on the social role of land, productive models and their consequences for the environment and communities, and ways of life; i.e. the practices and knowledge of rural communities. The fronts of the Forums and Boards are diverse: administrative, legislative, judicial, for the struggle and resistance, and over occupation and land use. According to the region and the conflict in question, the Forums and Boards also work together with state authorities to manage land tenure agreements, or submit draft legislation at the local, regional and even national level.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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