National Forest, Protected Areas and Wildlife Advisory Council (COCONAFOR)
The National Forest, Protected Areas, and Wildlife Advisory Council (Span. COCONAFOR) is the national body for citizen participation, consultation, social monitoring, and generation of action aimed at laying the foundations for unifying and developing an efficient, competitive and sustainable sector in forest conservation, protected areas and wildlife. The initiative creates a space of dialogue, negotiation and coordination of actions between public, private and civil society stakeholders. Four different levels of intervention are established for the advisory councils: national, departmental, municipal, and communal. The Council is composed of different secretariats and government institutions: representatives of peasant organizations, indigenous groups, Afro-Honduran organizations, professional forestry colleges, the Forest Chamber of Honduras, the Honduran Forestry Agenda, the Honduran National Federation of Farmers and Ranchers (Span. FENAGH), private forests, environmental associations, coffee farms, and primary industries.
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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