Community Forest Monitoring in Indigenous Territories
Community Forest Monitoring in Indigenous Territories was an initiative developed by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (COONAPIP), with funding from the United Nations. In the first stage, indigenous communities were provided with equipment (e.g. drones, computers and software) and trained to monitor the forests in their territory, both in terms of their characteristics (e.g. botanical species) and the forest's condition, so in order to alert about forest degradation. Subsequently, the communities implemented the techniques they had learned and the results were documented in monitoring reports.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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