Forests of the Future Program
Programa Florestas do Futuro (lit. Forests of the Future Program) brings civil society, the private sector, landowners and the public sector together in a participatory program for forest restoration. Through the restoration of degraded areas with native species, the program acts simultaneously on three fronts: the reduction of carbon emissions, the maintenance of biodiversity and the preservation of water resources. The program is based on the donation of seedlings of native species to landowners who agree to plant them. The program offers a special tool for direct citizen participation: a carbon calculator, through which citizens can estimate the carbon footprint resulting from their daily activities, and can fund the number of seedlings needed to offset their emissions. Trees can also be donated to the "Forest Company", which is an incentive for customers and employees of partner companies to plant on site and direct the seedlings to their forests. NGOs can also participate in the process: in each river basin or sub-basin a NGO is elected and accredited to promote reforestation in its region.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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