Cimarrona Guard
The Cimarrona Guard of northern Cauca is a community self-protection initiative that seeks to protect the territory autonomously in the face of threats from foreign interests. The idea comes from the First National Congress of the Black, Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquero People, held in 2013 in Quibdó, Chocó, inspired by the struggles of the Cimarron Guard of San Basilio de Palenque. The Cimarrona Guard of northern Cauca is a departmental process organized in the various Community Councils of the region, with the support of the Process of Black Communities and the Association of Community Councils of Northern Cauca. The members of the Guard face the constant challenge of interacting with different types of armed actors, particularly dedicated to illegal mining, through dialogue and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
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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