Community Emergency Committees
The Community Emergency Committees are entities that coordinate initiatives with the Municipal Emergency Committees to respond to emergencies and carry out risk management projects at the district, town or neighborhood level. These Committees, created by Law No. 8448, respond to environmental or health emergencies. They are made up of citizens and representatives of non-governmental organizations and the private sector. In 2019, there were more than 470 Community Emergency Committees in Costa Rica.
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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