Legislative Prior Consultation on Land Laws
The Legislative Consultation on Land Laws was carried out by the National Assembly of Ecuador for the indigenous and traditional peoples on the subject of a new law on land occupation. The basic issues under consideration were: the recognition and legalization of ancestral lands, the recognition of traditional forms and rights of use and exploitation of these territories and the right to social participation in the resolution of conflicts in these territories. 97% of the participants supported the legislative proposal presented to the debate. The Organized Consultation was organized from the discussions of the meetings with the communities involved with the topic. During the pre-legislative consultation, 879 organizations and 6000763 citizens from 23 provinces of the country participated.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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