Rural Development Municipal Councils
The Rural Development Municipal Councils (Span. CMDR) are proceedings of negotiation and coordination between local authorities, rural communities and public entities on policies and programs for the development of rural territories. Its main function is to prioritize projects and rationalize the use of resources for rural development. The CMDRs seek to facilitate the participation of rural inhabitants in the decision-making processes affecting them and also to be a space for citizens to engage in the management, planning, execution, monitoring and control of rural development in their municipality. At the least, each Council must be made up by the mayor of the municipality, representatives appointed by the Municipal Council, representatives of public entities that carry out rural development actions in the municipality, representatives of farmers associations and trades with presence in the municipality and representatives of rural communities, who must constitute the majority. These Councils were created in 1993 by the General Law of Agricultural and Fisheries Development and during the following three years specific functions were established and mechanisms were created to strengthen and guide Councils through different Decrees and the New Reform Law 1994.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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