Community Consultation of Kimsacocha
The Community consultation of Kimsacocha was organized by various civil society organizations of the Kimsacocha community, to express citizens' views on the mining law and the water resources bill passed in previous years. The Water System User?s Assembly appointed a commission to organize the process. This involved developing electoral registers and ballot papers that were deposited by each of the participants in sealed ballot boxes. The counting was done publicly and was verified by observers. The result of the consultation ratified the majority opposition held by the communities to the mining operation in the paramo of Kimsacocha, as 93% of the participants voted against it. However, the state authorities rejected the results and the community consultation alleging lack of legitimacy, due to the exclusivity held by the State in carrying out the prior, free and informed consultation.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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