Multisectorial Table for the Mirador-Río Azul National Park
The Multisectorial Table for the Mirador-Río Azul National Park was a participatory citizen-led initiative that sought to respond to the controversy of El Mirador (where the government had modified the territorial regulation) through dialogue between the National and Local governments, including the academic, community, private, international and non-governmental sectors. Its main objective was to secure the conservation and legal and political administration of the Río Azul / El Mirador zone, in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. The board agreed that this management model would focus on empowering local communities, tourism and the sustainable creation of economic opportunities, and would strengthen binational agreements with Mexico and Belize - which could counteract problematic issues such as human, flora and fauna trafficking, the looting of archaeological sites, drug trafficking and the change of purpose in land use. As a result of this participatory process - developed with more than 34 official, extraordinary and Work Committee meetings - strategic alliances between different sectors of society were strengthened, a responsible environmental security strategy was agreed upon, and local stakeholders were trained for the Development of tourism, among other results.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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