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**Last updated:** May 2024
- **Name:** The name of the community with collective governance practices.
- **Community:**
- **Institution:**
- **Community:** The group of people governed by the collective governance institution and the institutions connected to it within a political unit.
- **Institution:** A structure through which legislative or judicial decisions are made.
- **Collective governance institution:** Any structure where a group of more than one person gathers to make decisions on behalf of the community.
- **Mechanism:** A text description of a specific governance practice or rule. In this database, mechanisms are grouped into three broad categories: *access*, defining access to the instutition; *decision-making*, regulating decision-making processes; and *enforcement*, guiding enforcement practices.
- **Geography:**