Rural Territories Program
The Programa dos Territórios Rurais (lit. Rural Territories) Program was launched in 2004 by the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA). It consists in the creation of territories that comprise several municipalities and is used as a locus of policy management and citizen participation in rural development and in policies developed by the Ministry. In each territory, a territorial board consisting of representatives of local authorities, civil society and the private sector is formed to assume responsibility over territorial planning, institutional coordination, elaboration of proposals and technical projects, monitoring and social control of the program?s actions and other public policies that contribute to the sustainable development of territories. Currently, 239 territories are recognized by the Ministry of Agrarian Development, encompassing 1072 municipalities.
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
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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