Wayuu women's force observatory: Rights of indigenous peoples
The Wayuu Women's Force Observatory: Rights of Indigenous Peoples is an initiative that emerged in 2014 from the Wayuu Women's Force movement, with the accompaniment of the Basque organization IPES ELKARTEA and the European Union. The Observatory seeks to generate research on the different realities of the region, monitor conflicts between communities and mining companies, as well as make visible the violation of the rights of indigenous peoples and human rights. The Observatory was launched in the Wayuu Zahino Resguardo in the south of the Guajira - Municipality of Barrancas, with traditional Wayuu authorities, NGOs, and the Association of Authorities, Wayuu Indigenous Councils of the South of La Guajira. The Wayuu leaders at the head of the Observatory received death threats from criminal organizations in 2018 for their work in the territory.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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