Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees in Mining Contexts
The Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees in Mining Contexts are participative and deliberative bodies created by the Mining and Energy Ministry of Peru. This committees seek to prevent and mitigate the effects of environmental decay the extractive industries tend to have. The committees integrate members of the communities and regions being monitored in mining contexts. Up to 2020, there are 44 Participatory Environmental Committees the country that monitor and conduct reports in order to track the suggestions and concerns detected. The reports have been useful to develop legal tools that institutionalize the recommendations formed from the monitoring.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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