National Council of Conservation Areas
The National Council of Conservation Areas is the superior entity of the National System of Conservation Areas of Costa Rica. As such, this body carries out activities of planning, supervision, coordination and support, among others. The Council is composed of several government officials involved in the theme. However, it also includes the participation of a representative of each Regional Council of Conservation Areas, designated within each of them; which allows the direct participation of the citizenry, organized according to their environmental interests.
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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