Rural Development Tables (Stage II - Law No. 18.126)
The Rural Development Tables began to operate in 2001 within the framework of the "Uruguay Rural Project" (PUR), but in 2007 Law No. 18.126 for Decentralization and Coordination of Agricultural Policies on a Departmental basis was emitted, creating the Agricultural Council and thus bringing together different bodies and spaces: a National Agricultural Council, one Departmental Board for each department, and the Rural Development Tables. The latter are the participatory space within the structure of the Law, and are integrated by the Departmental Agricultural Council, a representative of each agricultural cooperative, a representative of each agricultural trade association and a representative of the Agro-Commission of the Departmental Board. However, the process also created "Sub-Toards" that vary in their integration. The Tables are intended to be a space where concerns and demands of rural producers can be raised, and where they can coordinate their activities to promote greater equality, local development and the preservation of the environment. By 2015, 40 tables were in operation with approximately 20000 people involved.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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