Departmental and Local Drug Boards
The Departmental and Local Drug Boards are connected to the National Drug Board and must fulfill the role of decentralizing and territorializing drug policies. Among its tasks are to design and implement drug policies at the regional and local levels, and to develop departmental or local diagnoses and plans. They began to establish themselves by initiative of the National Board of Drugs from 1999 and were regulated by Decree N° 84/010. The Departmental Boards are institutions formed by different State bodies to promote interinstitutional work but also include different participatory aspects. Thus, the decree establishes that the Board can be formed by governmental and non-governmental actors, promoting a wide participation of institutions and civil society organizations. In addition, the decree includes the duty of the Boards to convene open assemblies for participatory exchange. Boards were established in all departments, and design and participation may vary by location. The Departmental Boards were also part of the organization of the participatory debate for the Marijuana Laws of Uruguay.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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