Panama

Advisory Board for Environmental Management post COVID-19

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2020 – 2020
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio de Ambiente
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Advisory Board for Environmental Management post Covid-19 was convened in 2020 by the Ministry of the Environment to discuss proposals for post-pandemic environmental management. Due to the preventive measures in the context of the pandemic, the meetings take place on a digital platform. The objective of the deliberative table was to write a document with suggestions regarding key actions contributing to a sustainable economic recovery after the crisis triggered by the pandemic and social equity. Additionally, the initiative seeks to evaluate the actions of the Ministry?s environmental plan, in light of the new normality generated by the pandemic. Representatives of civil society organizations, international organizations, the academia, and the private sector participated in the advisory table. The general topics that the Ministry of Environment pointed shall be discussed at the meetings are: Sustainable economic development; environmental financing; climate change; environmental governance; soils, biodiversity and forests? ecosystem; environmental education and culture; water security and oceans.

Institutional design

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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: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation