Community Association for Participatory Management of Chagres National Park
The Community Association for Participatory Management of the Chagres National Park (ACOCHA) was created in 2006 to promote a participatory administration of the National Park. Its purpose is to implement projects that aim to improve the living conditions of the local inhabitants through the conservation and sustainable use of the resources in the protected area. ACOCHA is a non-profit organization, structured in local management committees, each having its own board of directors.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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