Specific Advisory Commissions (CAEs) of Protected Areas
The Specific Advisory Commissions (CAEs) of Protected Areas were established in Law No. 17.234, which provides the legal framework for protected areas in Uruguay. The operation of the CAEs was detailed In 2005, through Decree 52-2005. As of 2015, five CAEs were completed. The CAEs are committed to the advice, promotion, follow-up and monitoring of protected natural areas. They also advise the National Directorate for the Environment and the Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment on measures necessary for the protection of the environment. On the other hand, they should function as areas of participation for local communities. They are made up of: delegates from the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, who will preside over it; the Ministry of National Defense; the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries; the Police Headquarters and the corresponding municipal administrations; the administrator of the protected area; the landowners of the area; the settlers living within the area; and the non-governmental environmental organizations working in the area.
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
- sporadic
- 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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