Municipal Emergency Committees
The Municipal Emergency Committees are agencies that work together with the Regional Emergency Committees to respond to emergencies and carry out risk management at the local level, coordinating, if necessary, actions with the Regional Committees and/or the National Commission for Risk Management and Emergency Attention. In most cases, the coverage of the Municipal Emergency Committees is in accordance with the cantonal division of the country, however, it is determined by the type and extent of the threats. Representatives of government entities and non-governmental organizations participate in the Municipal Emergency Committees, and the Committees are coordinated by the maximum authority of the city hall or a representative designated by him/her. Situations the Committees deal with are, for example, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, or health emergencies. In 2020, the committees undertook actions to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, for example, providing food kits to vulnerable groups.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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