Popular Consultation on Mining in Cajamarca
In the Popular Consultation on Mining Exploitation in Cajamarca, the local government asked the following question to the citizens: Do you agree with the implementation of mining projects and activities in the municipality of Cajamarca? 6,165 people out of the 6,296 who voted, voted against it, which meant that the mining project of the company AngloGold Ashanti, for open-pit gold mining, was not carried out.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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