Citizen action for the environmental valuation of public spaces
The ?Citizen action for the environmental valuation of public space" project sought to strengthen the environmental citizenship of young people through their participation in full cycles of environmental management and the promotion of debates around specific environmental problems, in addition to permanent contact with social organizations, neighbors, municipal authorities and school leaders. Young people from organizations and schools in the municipalities of Cochabamba and Quillacollo diagnosed environmental problems and developed simple initiatives that consisted of the participation of municipal governments and social organizations. They also performed a social control of these actions in coordination with neighborhood meetings and school boards. The information they collected was distributed through newsletters. They also participated in two virtual forums, a blog was created for the presentation of the information and debate, and a video was produced and edited about the Rocha River problem. The youth also participated in the Peoples? World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Nature developed in Cochabamba.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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