Citizens' Initiative for the General Water Law
The Citizens' Initiative for the General Water Law was the result of a process of deliberation and discussion organized through assemblies in different communities, municipalities and cities in Mexico. This deliberative process lasted 8 years and was led by the National Coordinator "Water for All, Water for Life". Once the participatory process was concluded, the proposed General Water Law was drafted, which promotes the protection of water in Mexico and promotes the human right to water. This citizen initiative collected 200,000 signatures and was formally presented to the Mexican Congress in February 2020. It is expected that the approval of this law will be discussed during 2021.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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