Hydrographic Basin Committees
The Hydrographic Basin Committees were provided for by Act No. 9.433 of 1997, which regulates water management in the country. They are collective bodies, deliberative and participatory in character, that attempt to expand citizen participation in water management policies. Their members include representatives of federal, state and municipal governments, civil society and untreated water users, such as basic sanitation companies, industries, farmers and others. Their competencies are extensive and varied, and include the following: to negotiate conflicts in water usage; approve plans for water basins; and set prices for water usage. Some states had similar experiences before the federal law, but conformed to the new federal law. In 2010, 150 hydrographic basin committees were detected in the country.
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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