National Council of Water Resources
The National Council of Water Resources integrates the National System for Water Resource Management as a collegial body, advisory and deliberative in character, of the procedural struture of the Ministry of the Environment, created in January, 1997 and amended in July, 2000. The council is one of the organs responsible for water resources management in the country. According to its rules of procedure, its competences are: to formulate the National Policy on Water Resources and establish guidelines for its implementation; promote the coordination of water resources plans within the national, regional, state, and the user sectors; approve the National Plan for Water Resources; set the charge costs for water resource usage and, in conjunction with the committees of watersheds, define the priorities for its application; authorize the creation of water agencies; approve the framework for bodies of water by class, in accordance with guidelines from the National Council of the Environment and with the classification established by environmental legislation; among others. The council is comprised of 57 councilors, of which 29 belong to the federal government, 10, from State Water Resource Councils, 12, from water resource users and 6, from civil organizations linked to water resources.
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 a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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