Prior Consultation of indigenous peoples on the El Diguís Hydroelectric Project
The consultation of the indigenous peoples on the El Diguís Hydroelectric Project endeavors to complete the environmental impact study to be endorsed by the National Technical Secretariat of the Environment (Span. Setena) to authorize the El Diquís power plant. To such effect, in 2014, after three years of controversies, the Government of Costa Rica formed the committee in charge of the indigenous consultation, in the south of the country. The group is composed of the hierarchs of 13 portfolios and public entities, among them the Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund and the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE). As of 2016 the consultation had not yet been 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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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