Municipal Committees for Prevention, Mitigation and Disaster Relief
The Municipal Committees for Prevention, Mitigation and Disaster Relief are bodies created in 2000 when the National System for the Prevention of Disaster Mitigation and Attention was legally established, which operate at the municipal level in order to define the priorities of the municipalities in the matter, as well as to implement the measures and instruments required to comply with the prevention, mitigation and prevention of disasters in their respective municipality through the formation and work in commissions of: security, supplies, infrastructure and transportation, health, environment and natural resources, and consumer protection. The Committees are comprised of the representatives of the Local Government, delegates of the Ministries of Government present in the territory and representatives of civil society organizations concerned and affected by the issues that the committees work in.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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