Indigenous Consultation Process and Citizen's Participatory Exercise on the Mayan Train Development Project
The Indigenous Consultation Process and Citizen Participatory Exercise on the Mayan Train Development Project was organized in 2018 by the team of the newly elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This process consisted of a month-long consultative journey with the participation of authorities and representatives of indigenous communities from the states of: Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, where the construction of the Mayan Train is planned. These consultations were organized through 30 regional assemblies with the objective of knowing the opinions of the indigenous inhabitants on the Mayan Train project. A total of 10,305 people from 112 municipalities participated. In addition to the assemblies, a participatory exercise was implemented for which 269 voting tables were installed where the citizens of the southern states of Mexico could vote in favor or against the Mayan Train project. A total of 100,940 citizens participated in this vote, of which 92.3% voted in favor of the project.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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