Local Emergency Committee (CODEL)
The Local Emergency Committee (Span. CODEL) is a participatory space created for citizens who belong to communities vulnerable to natural disasters. It works together with public authorities on local emergency plans. In case of an emergency, the CODELs are activated. They are the ones in charge of the implementation of the emergency plan, as well as the co-management with the competent authorities of the aid for the rehabilitation and/or reconstruction of the affected areas. By 2016, 169 committees had been consolidated. They had received at least one training per year and had socialized emergency plans to a greater or lesser extent. However, there is evidence regarding the weaknesses of committees in the monitoring and forecasting phase based on the defined thresholds.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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