Argentina

Peasant University UNICAM

City/State/Region: Santiago del Estero
Begin – End: 2008 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero MOCASE - Vía Campesina
Type of organization in charge: civil society
Level: regional

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: -
Policy Outcome: -

The UNICAM Peasant University is a participatory initiative of popular education, created in 2008 in the province of Santiago del Estero. It is articulated with the MOCASE (Campesino Movement of Santiago del Estero) at a regional level, at a Latin American level with the CLOC (Latin American Coordinator of Peasant Organizations), and worldwide with La Vía Campesina. The Peasant University, with its emphasis on rural Indo-Peasant university systems, has the purpose of integrating peasant and indigenous knowledge into an alternative academic context within a broad and diverse dialogue. It has eight pedagogical paths: Agroecology; Popular Communication; Human Rights, Land and Territory; Popular arts and music; Popular medicine; Popular architecture; Renewable technologies and industries; Popular and solidary economy. This project designed from the peasants, where the community is the protagonist, has generated deliberative spaces around the territory and the type of agriculture that they want in the region.

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: not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: no

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

Sources

http://www.mocase.org.ar/secciones/universidad-campesina