National Commission for Protected Areas
The National Commission for Protected Areas (CNA) was established in Law No. 17.234, which provides the legal framework for protected areas in Uruguay. The law and the functioning of the Commission were implemented in 2005 and the Commission was set up in 2006. The Commission is chaired by the Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment or by the National Environmental Directorate and is comprised of delegates from the Executive Branch, the National Congress of Mayors, the University of the Republic, the National Public Education Administration, representative organizations of rural producers and non-governmental environmental organizations. The Commission envisages regular meetings to advise the Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment, and through it, to the Executive in all matters related to the policy of natural areas protected at the national level, as well as in the implementation and enforcement of Law No. 17.234. The work also includes quite technical topics such as the consideration of entering new sites to the set of protected areas or topics of protected area management.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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