Participatory Democracy for the Environmental Management of Villa El Salvador
The Participatory Democracy for Environmental Management Project of Villa El Salvador district was promoted by several international organizations and civil society with the aim of strengthening the management activities of the local environmental committees. This space of citizen participation made available training in environmental planning and awareness-raising spaces for citizens; it laid the ground for the creation of a network of environmental committees; it elaborated, together with the citizens, a citizen surveillance system to take care of the environment; and it promoted activities to share this type of experiences at a national and international level.
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 a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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