Watching the Rivers
Watching the Rivers Watching is an observatory coordinated by the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation, which aims to monitor the water quality in several rivers throughout the Mata Atlântica states. The project has an impact on the implementation of public policies on water resources through the direct participation of citizens in monitoring activities. Citizens participate on a voluntary basis, and schools often enroll in the project so that students collaborate in the monitoring tasks. The monitoring is carried out following a methodology established by the SOS Malta Atlántica Foundation, using kits provided by it. The participatory process aims to include citizens in the management of local natural resources and the implementation of environmental public policies.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
Means
|
Ends
|
