Water Encounters
The Water Encounters were part of a project carried out in 2013, in which different stakeholders and organizations from the state and civil society were invited to discuss issues, practices and uses related to water resources, with the aim of establishing guidelines that could help in the implementation of public water policy in the country. Throughout the year, citizens, people from social organizations, public service providers, the academy, companies and unions from the productive sector, risk management institutions, regional and local authorities, and representatives from the education sector in 12 cities and 6 regions of the country met one another. The discussions focused on three dimensions proposed by the project: water as a factor of productive and social development, water as a factor to meet basic needs, and water as a risk factor due to floods, droughts and pollution. After the regional meetings, a large regional meeting was held in which the results of these meetings were presented, inter-institutional alliances were sought to develop joint activities that could respond to regional water needs and agreed upon guidelines for the execution of the public policy on water.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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