National Socio-Environmental Monitoring Committees
The National Socio-Environmental Monitoring Committees are in charge of overseeing the impact assessments carried out in contract areas for searching and producing oil. They are made up of representatives of the Ministries of Hydrocarbons, Sustainable Development, and Popular Participation; members of the Managing and Inspection Agency of the public company "Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos" (the state-owned oil and gas company of Bolivia); and a representative of indigenous peoples. Among its most essential attributions is the approval of actions that have positive impacts and the mitigation of actions with adverse results.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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