Councils of the Watershed
The Councils of the Watershed are collegial bodies that function as authorities of coordination, consultation, support, and advice between: 1) the National Water Commission, 2) various different watershed organizations, 3) federal, state or municipal agencies and entities; and 4) representatives of water users and societal organizations. Its main activities concern the study of national plans on water management, the analysis of specific programs of the watershed, the monitoring and evaluation of the plans and programs being carried out, the management of its own activities and operation, and elaborating on proposals for the best use of the resources in the water administration.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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