Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees in Mining Contexts
Participatory environmental monitoring committees in mining contexts are an instance in which citizens and representatives of civil society organizations can monitor the activity of mining companies and their environmental impact. In Argentina, one committee was organized to monitor activities at the mine Bajo de la Alumbrera and another one to monitor activities at the Salar de Olaroz mine. In the first case, monitoring arises from an initiative of civil society , while in the second one, the call, methodological design and follow-up of the monitoring process are the responsibility of the mining company Sales Jujuy.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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