Regional and Municipal Environmental Commissions
The Regional and Municipal Environmental Commissions are instances of dialogue, consultation, elaboration and implementation around environmental public policies, of a multisectorial nature and with representation of regional and municipal governments as well as the civil and private sector. They have great flexibility in the functions and themes that they cover since the objective of their creation was to reflect on the specific environmental problems and situations of each jurisdiction. Its size and composition therefore varies according to regional and local regulations. The decisions and proposals emerging from the regional and municipal bodies are in turn addressed by the national body (National Council of the Environment -CONAM-).
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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