Popular initiative before Departmental Boards to ban open-pit mining
In different departments of Uruguay, civil society groups tried to carry out a popular initiative in order to declare their respective departments free of open-pit metalliferous mining. In all departments, signatures were gathered with the idea that the Departmental Boards could affect the proposal, and if this is not possible, the board of signatures would have the objective of holding a plebiscite. Due to the lack of regulation in the area of national and departmental competencies, the results varied in each department, some being declared open-pit-mining-free areas.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- unknown
- Co-Governance
- yes
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