Committees for Monitoring Natural Resources (COVIRENAS)
The Committees for Monitoring Natural Resources (COVIRENAS) are bodies composed by ad-honorem inspectors of wildlife whose purpose is to contribute to the implementation and enforcement of the Wildlife Conservation Act. The persons who assume the role of inspectors are trained and examined beforehand and among their diverse functions the following stand out: a) presenting reports before the courts; b) acting as a witness in complaints and seizures; c) carrying out activities of Environmental Education; and d) participating in control operations supporting activities carried out by officials of the General Directorate of Wildlife (SINAC). This innovation enables the voluntary participation of eligible individuals and / or civil society organizations for the purpose of contributing to the conservation of the natural resources of the community in question. In fact, in 2016 it appears that the Natural Resources Monitoring Committees have combined different paths in order to attend to the social and environmental situations characteristic of each community. Likewise, in several communities, projects are carried out in order to integrate young people into COVIRENAS committees and forest fire brigades, in order to ensure that they respect biodiversity within parks and biological corridors.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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