Guatemala

Barrancos Invertidos

City/State/Region: Guatemala City
Begin – End: 2014 – 2014
Name of organization in charge: Municipalidad de GuatemalaUniversidad de San Carlos de GuatemalaUniversidad de IstmoOficioColectivo: Taller de Arquitectura y Ciudad
Type of organization in charge: government private stakeholders
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The research project "Barrancos Invertidos" (lit. Inverted Ravines) was an initiative proposed by private sector architects and carried out jointly with the local government and members of the academy. The objective of this research was to analyze and classify the ravines of Guatemala City - which occupy 41% of the total territory of the Municipality - in a baseline of geo-referential information, for the realization of sustainable public policies, all the while according to the processes of urbanization, to the urban-social ecology, and to the preexisting settlements (defying, in turn, social challenges and urban segregation). The results of this project revealed the potential of the ravines in the urban agenda of the city. Breaking paradigms and reconsidering a productive, sustainable and economic use of these spaces, the innovation also suggests the creation of public policies of a territorial order that would re-qualify these spaces for the use or the construction of rain collectors or bridges, among other considerations.

Institutional design

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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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation