Management Committees of the Protected Natural Areas
The Management Committees of the Protected Natural Areas are representative bodies of citizens, with open, voluntary and ad-honorem participation, which accompany and supervise the administrative activity regarding the Protected Natural Areas. They also have broad powers to propose and formulate Plans, Activities and policies to be discussed with the national authorities. They are represented by the local, regional, and private sectors as well as the citizenry and peasant or indigenous communities; and are presented as a forum for the discussion and coordination of the different sectors interested in protecting the environment and natural resources; at the same time, they have specific functions for the monitoring and evaluation of the state management.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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