Popular Public Consultation: Water War Cochabamba
The Water and Life Defense Coordinator organized an informal popular consultation in the context of the water conflict of the so-called "Water War" of Cochabamba in 2000. This initiative had the support of peasants, neighborhoods, volunteers and the media. The Cochabamba population gave their opinion through their vote. The questions on the ballot were three: 1) Do you accept the rate increase? 2) Should the contract with Aguas del Tunari be canceled? 3) Do you agree with the private nature of water provision in Law 2029? About 50 000 people participated in the consultation.
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
- single
- 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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