Marine Turtle Spawning Habitat Protection Project in Tortuguero
The Marine Turtle Spawning Habitat Protection Project in Tortuguero arises from the initiative of the Rural Aqueduct Association of Tortuguero, which brought together representatives of citizens and local businesses to begin the environmental recovery of the area. In 2006, Tortuguero faced a serious waste management problem. Waste was incinerated in the open, then buried and later accumulated non-stop on the same beaches where different species of turtles came every year to spawn. In addition, there was an outbreak of dengue that kept the State and the Municipality on alert, which even led to the suspension of various public activities. Against this background, the Rural Aqueduct Association of Tortuguero brought together community leaders, neighbors, hoteliers and other self-employed entrepreneurs, who had to carry out the task of restoring an abandoned place to become the center of operations for the recycling plant. The Municipality contributed funds and the Association of Tourist Guides made donations.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- unknown
- Co-Governance
- yes
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