Committees for Food and Consumer Protection
The Committees for Food and Consumer Protection are participatory institutions inside the Communal Councils, and are specifically responsible for coordinating and presenting the plan for the creation of popular food kitchens, called Food Markets (Mercados de Alimentos; Mercal). The objective is to promote the agri-food policy advanced by the Government such that it meets the needs of the people and guarantees access to food and compliance with fair pricing for subsidized items.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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