National Council for Sustainable Development
The National Council for Sustainable Development was created to ensure a positive change in the quality of life of the citizen, by considering the citizen at the center of development through economic growth with social equality and ecological balance as well as respect for local, regional or national ethnic and cultural diversity. The council works to establish and promote mechanisms for consultation among the different sectors of society, for the coordination of actions on the theme of sustainable development, to promote and execute policies, strategies, programs and projects. Likewise, it establishes local committees for sustainable development and follow-up on its programs. The Coordinating Minister of the National Economic Council, the Coordinating Minister of the Social Cabinet, the Director of the National Institute of Natural Resources, the President of the Legislative Committee on Population, Environment and Development, as well as a representative of the Council of Rectors of Official and Private Universities; a representative of the National Council of Private Enterprise, a representative of non-governmental organizations, a representative of the National Council of Organized Workers and a representative of the Indian Sector all participate on the Council.
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
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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