Boards of Directors of Rural Aqueducts (JAAR)
The Boards of Directors of Rural Aqueducts (Span. JAAR) are community organizations with a legal personality, non-profit and of public interest, which manage the income generated by the assets and investments in a system of drinking water supply for the benefit of the community. The consultation and participation mechanism for decision-making is through ordinary or special meetings or assemblies. Decisions are made by the majority consensus of the members and the directive.
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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