Citizen General-Law Initiative for National Waters
The Citizen General Law Initiative for National Waters emerged as a response by civil society to the Government's attempt to reform Article 105, which prevents the privatization of public services. The draft law was introduced in 2003, and in 2007, after several years of discussion, was approved by the National Assembly. The law, in addition to guaranteeing the public water service, guarantees, in turn, the participation of civil society in the formulation of public policies on water and the inter-sectorial protection of watersheds and sub-basins of the water system.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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