Sectorial Citizen Council for Rural People
The Sectorial Citizen Council for Rural People is a collegiate body made up of state and civil society representatives with the aim of fostering dialogue, deliberative processes and the evaluation of public policies on the issue of farmers' rights and rural development in Ecuador. Its work is supported by the executive power through the Ministry responsible for the subject, and it is set to meet at least twice a year. Among its duties, the council appoints representatives for the National Assembly of Good Living, the highest organ of citizen representation within the planification framework of the Ecuadorian State. An example of its implementation is the Sectorial Citizen Council for Rural People in Mocha. Following the Organic Law of Citizen Participation, the council was established by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries (MAGAP), along with the Zonal Coordination #3 and the Provincial Agricultural Directorate of Tungurahua in 2013. In its founding meeting, farmers who are members of associations, councils and irrigation boards made clear their most pressing needs, like the delivery of land titles, promoting the reforestation of the moors and regulating the interest rates of the credits granted by the National Development Bank.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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