Citizen Initiative for a Popular Consultation for the Yasuní
The Citizen Initiative for a Popular Consultation for the Yasuní was a process of collecting citizen signatures, promoted by a group of civil society representatives, before the government's decision to end the international plan that sought to replace the exploitation of oil for environmental compensation paid by funds from the international community. In 2013, after the Ecuadorean president announced the failure of the 2007 initiative and the consequent habilitation for oil extraction in some areas of the Yasuní, a collective of social organizations and citizens (Yasunidos) presented to the National Electoral Council a request for a popular consultation. The consultation would ask the citizens if they would agree that the Ecuadorian government keep the oil reseves of Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) indefinitely unexploited. However, this consultation was never carried out because the 359,761 valid signatures amassed were not sufficient to kickstart the procedure.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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