Rural Development Tables (Stage I - "Uruguayan Rural Project")
The Rural Development Tables started to operate in 2001 under the "Rural Uruguay Project" (PUR), which was created through an agreement between IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and the government of Uruguay. They were designed as local spaces for the identification, prioritization and consensus about rural development activities. The main objectives were to decentralize the management of rural development and to promote the participation of rural development beneficiaries in the evaluation and design of these policies, and to strengthen grassroots organizations, especially those representative of vulnerable or excluded groups. The panels were composed of rural producer organizations, groups that could voice local realities, representatives of productive initiatives and/or of common social and economic interests, of rural women and youth, of rural workers and former workers, and cooperatives and societies of rural development. In addition, State representatives from branches related to the matter were also included in the Tables. Their structure was formed upon the basis of a Plenary, a Project Committee and a Technical Secretariat. The Committee was in charge of making the calls for rural development projects, evaluating and approving or rejecting them, and always under the control of the plenary. Law No. 18.126 of 2007 regulates the Tables under a new institutional design, which began to be implemented as of 2008. The number of boards has varied over the years, reaching between 10 and 21 tables throughout the national territory.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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