Regional Councils of Conservation Areas
The Regional Councils of Conservation Areas are the bodies in charge of administering the Costa Rican National System of Conservation Areas. These councils are integrated through a public calling to all interested non-governmental and communal organizations, municipalities and public institutions present in the area. Among the functions of the Councils is to encourage the participation of the different sectors of the region in matters related to natural resources and the environment in order to approve the specific strategies, policies, directives, guidelines, plans and budgets of the Conservation Area and define specific issues for the management of their protected areas. Some of these councils, as in the case of Guanacaste, have enabled the participation of civil society in this area since 1989.
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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