Citizen Consultation on Mining Concessions
On December 2nd, 2018, a citizen consultation was organized in the Honduran municipality of El Triunfo, Choluteca. It was the first initiative of its kind in southern Honduras. The consultation was followed and closely monitored by different civil associations and international organizations, as well as human rights observers. For the consultation, 60 ballot boxes were installed for citizens to vote in favor, or against, the authorization of mining-related activities in the area. Approximately 8,606 locals participated in the consultation, of which 97.9% voted against the installation of mining projects in the community, while 0.73% voted in favor and 0.53% of the votes were considered invalid. As the first citizen consultation in the municipality, this initiative was considered an important precedent that could facilitate and foster the implementation of similar participatory processes in the region.
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
- unknown
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