Interinstitutional Commission of the Panama Canal Watershed (CICH)
The Interinstitutional Commission of the Panama Canal Watershed (CICH) is an institution that has its origin in Article 6 of Law 19 of June 11, 1997, which was regulated in the Agreement No. 116 of Panama Canal Authority?s Board of Directors. Its purpose is to monitor and evaluate the programs, projects and policies implemented for the management of the basin, seeking to solve inconsistencies and avoid duplication of tasks for a more efficient administration. It is also responsible for allocating resources to carry out projects approved by the Panama Canal Authority and creating an information system that includes data on the projects that are developed in the basin. The Commission is made up of representatives of four Ministries (one representative per Ministry, mostly ministers), the Panama Canal Authority and representatives of two non-governmental organizations (Natura Foundation and Cáritas Arquidiocesana).
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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