Volunteer Park Rangers
The Volunteer Park Rangers Program was created under the National Protected Areas and its correspondent supreme decree in 2001. The program is designed to incorporate national and international students and young professionals, as well as people from local indigenous and farming communities, into the functions official park rangers in Peru?s national protected areas, parks and reserves. The volunteers actively participate on the implantation of various aspects of environmental and cultural policies in the protection of protected areas, from biodiversity to environmental law. This capacity building contributes to the formation of professionals and promotes the values of caretaking in order to create in the volunteers a deep understanding and appreciation of their own national natural and cultural heritage.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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