Community Water Councils
The Community Water Councils are the spaces that bring together all the Technical Water Boards of a certain geographic and civil circumscription (for example a parish, a department) or served by the same supply cycle and that share the same infrastructure (of hydraulic systems, aqueducts, etc.) that serves several communities. They are organizations for deliberation that intend to share common experiences and facilitate public and periodic communication between communities and the regional hydrological enterprise. The Boards are represented by elected spokespersons, who collaborate in the process of following up the organization of the same, reviewing the supply cycle, accompanying the execution of the projects of each Bureau, monitoring compliance with agreements between communities and companies, and to follow up and account for the works. In some municipalities, the councils were able to integrate and obtain formal participation in municipal governments.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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