Sectional Agricultural Development Councils (CONSEA)
Los Sectional Agricultural Development Councils (Span. CONSEA) are the agency responsible for coordinating the implementation of agricultural and fisheries policy, special programs and the provision of agricultural services at the departmental level. Its main functions are to evaluate, discuss and validate the Departmental Plan for Agricultural and Fisheries Development; arrange and recommend the distribution of the investment resources of the entities attached to and linked to the ministry and the special programs; and to identify and promote agricultural, fishery and rural development projects of a departmental nature. It appears that the first time CONSEA was named was in the Law of Agrarian Reform and Rural Poor Development in 1994. Its importance for planning and coordinating the implementation of rural departmental policies is confirmed by the establishment of the CONSEA as a structural part of the National Regional System of the agricultural sector at the departmental level in 2004, and then in 2013 when it is established within the organization of the coordination system of activities for the implementation of the National Pact for Agriculture and Rural Development such that articulation of the Agricultural System will be done at the departmental level through the CONSEA. These Councils are made up of representatives of the respective departments, representatives of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Planning, representatives of the institutes, departments, corporations, units or national and departmental funds that work in the matter, by representatives of the organizations and rural poor guilds and representatives of associations of professionals or academics in the sector.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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