Participatory Committees of the Program Cultivating Good Water
The Program Cultivating Good Water was developed by the company Itapú Binational, with the purpose of propitiating a participative management of hydric resources in the 29 municipalities of the Hydrographic Basin III of the Paraná River. The committees are made up of citizens, representatives of NGOs, the private sector, and the government, who are grouped into 39 committees and design, monitor, and implement measures to preserve and improve water quality, thus recovering micro-watersheds and vegetation; reducing soil erosion; and raising the population's awareness of the existing challenges and the importance of environmental protection. Although participation in the programs is broad, the program seeks to encourage the participation of women, rural farmers and indigenous peoples. The program received an award from the United Nations.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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