Advisory Councils of Protected Natural Areas
The Advisory Councils of Protected Natural Areas are agencies for social participation. They are spaces for consensus between the public sector, for external and community cooperation to promote support for programs of Protected Natural Areas. It is comprised of the Governor of the State or Head of Government of Mexico City, the Director of the protected natural area, the Municipal President of where the natural area is located, and representatives of academic institutions, research centers and social organizations.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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