Dialogue Towards COP21
The ?Dialogue Towards COP21? took place in 2015 with the participation of 167 citizens who represented more than 80 civil society organizations, universities and private companies. During three days, participants discussed and deliberated the most pressing environmental challenges in the country, in order to contribute to the participation of the Dominican Republic in the UN Climate Change Conference 2015 (Conference of the Parties COP21). The dialogue led to a document that gathers the participants? agreements on the then current environmental situation in the Dominican Republic, as well a series of recommended actions.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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