National Agricultural and Agro-industrial Council
The National Agricultural and Agro-industrial Council is a body created legally in 1996 to advise the National Government on agricultural and agro-industrial policy. On this Council, citizens affected by these issues and the Government have the possibility of agreeing, analyzing, planning, conceptualizing, recommending, formulating and carrying out the country's agricultural and agro-industrial policy. The Council is made up of representatives of the President of the Republic and other entities and agencies of the National Government working on related issues, representatives of agricultural sector guilds and representatives of peasant organizations, black communities, indigenous communities, smallholder farmers, agronomist and veterinary societies.
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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