Municipal Councils of Food and Nutritional Security
The Municipal Councils of Food and Nutritional Security are collegial bodies responsible for developing general guidelines for the elaboration and implementation of the Municipal Plan of Food and Nutritional Security and the National Policy for Food and Nutritional Security in the municipality. The councils should bring together the three following sectors of society: public authority representatives; representatives of organizations or institutions that already operate in food safety (churches, trade unions, cooperatives, NGOs, etc.); and representatives of civil society.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- 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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