Prior, Free and Informed Consultation in Indigenous Communities for the PROFINCAS Project
Prior, free and informed consultations were held in the indigenous communities of Chaco to implement the "Livestock Farms in Indigenous Communities" project. This project aims to tackle poverty in indigenous communities by promoting sustainable livestock. The consultative meetings were attended by the regional Governor, the Paraguayan Indigenous Institute, the Technical Unit of the Social Cabinet, and leaders from the development councils and local indigenous groups. The consultations were prompted by the consecration of Indigenous Peoples? right to participate in the social, political, and cultural life of the country. In addition, Paraguay had ratified the ILO Convention No. 169 on Prior Consultation.
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
- single
- 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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