Coordinator of Bajo Lempa and Bahía de Jiquilisco
The Coordinator of Bajo Lempa and Bahía de Jiquilisco is an organization made up of communities from these municipalities. It emerged in 1995 to jointly address the environmental risk situation, was created to facilitate the participation of its members, and to promote the formation of Local Groups in the different zones of Jiquilisco. Its Board of Directors is elected for two years, and members can only serve a maximum of two consecutive terms. The Coordinator favors consensus as a method for decision-making.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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