Community Participation in the Immediate Action Plan
The Community Participation in the Immediate Action Plan was the first stage in the creation of a sustainable development strategy and integral management plan for the water resources of the Panama Canal Watershed. It was designed between 2001 and 2003 to integrate the inhabitants of areas bordering watersheds into the planning, participation and decision-making spaces regarding the management of resources and to thusly agree on the future of their communities. As a result: 1) a participatory community structure was established, consisting of Local Committees and a Community Commission of the Basin; and, 2) action plans were developed to address five sub-basins.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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