Advisory Commission on Water and Sanitation
The Water and Sanitation Advisory Commission (COASAS) was a tripartite body, comprising the State, academic institutions and a representative of civil society organizations, whose purpose was to advise the Executive Branch on water and sanitation policies at the national level. The Commission was created by Article 331 of Law 17.930 of December 19, 2005 and regulated by Decree Decree No. 450/006.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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