Municipal Commission for Water and Sanitation (COMAS)
The Municipal Commission for Water and Sanitation (Span. COMAS) is a body established as an advisory service to the Municipal Governments for the study, planning, coordination and monitoring of the execution of activities and projects within the drinking water and sanitation sector. It also monitors the implementation of activities and projects related to that sector, which are carried out within the municipality. Among its members are councilors of the municipality, as well as civil society representatives as suggested by various business, professional, community, cultural, social, ethnic and institutional organizations. By 2013, COMAS had been established in 70 municipalities of the country, where it promoted a legal and regulatory framework to improve water management and sanitation.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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