Watershed committees
The Watershed Committees are created by Law 44 of 2002 and financed by the Ministry of Environment, who oversees them. The committees? competencies are the administration, protection and conservation of the Panamanian watersheds, and they operate as a mechanism of coordinated action between civil society and government actors, based on debate and consensual decision-making. The committees are made up of the regional directors of the ministries of Environment, Agricultural Development, Housing and Land Management, Commerce and Industries, the Institute of Aqueduct and National Sewers, users of water resources and representatives of regional civil society organizations working on environmental issues. In 2020 there are more than 24 committees, however, the goal set by the Executive Power to establish 51 committees has not been reached yet.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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