Indigenous Guard
The Indigenous Guard is a group formed by men, women and children of the indigenous people of the Cauca region, in charge of defending, protecting, controlling and preserving their rights, territories and resources from the many threats they have been exposed to for centuries, but mainly from those represented by the different armed groups that have existed in the country. The initiative was created in 1994 by the indigenous councils of the region to face the situations of danger to which they were exposed. Members of the Indigenous Guard use dialogue and negotiation to deal with individuals or groups that threaten them, so they do not carry weapons to meet their objectives.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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