National Environmental Council
The National Environmental Council is a body for participation that has the purpose of coordinating inter-sectorial policies, plans and programs in environmental matters and renewable natural resources. The Council is composed of nine ministers, the director of the National Planning Department and representatives of civil society from social organizations, universities, trade unions and non-governmental environmental organizations. It was created in 1993 when the Ministry of the Environment was created, the public sector in charge of the management and conservation of the environment and renewable natural resources was reorganized and the National Environmental System was organized. It was regulated in 1994 and 1997, and was later modified in 1999 and 2002.
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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