Municipal Environmental Commissions
The Municipal Environmental Commissions are bodies created since 1998 in order to resolve local environmental issues in consultation with local governments, government institutions, NGOs and civil society at the municipal level. The operation of each Commission is made official by each municipality that decides to create it through a Resolution or Municipal Ordinance. Participants in the Commission design, implement and make decisions on the strategic environmental actions required at the local level, especially those incorporated in the Municipal Environmental Plans.
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
- unknown
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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