Unified Program for Capacity Building in Water and Sanitation
The Unified Program for Capacity Building in Water and Sanitation is a regional initiative promoted in various Latin American countries, aimed at strengthening the work of community organizations involved in the provision of water and sanitation services. In Honduras, the project had the participation of stakeholders from the government, the academia, the private sector and community organizations. It consists of a competitive fund that supports existing initiatives. Throughout Latin America, 440 citizens of 221 community organizations in Honduras, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, and Paraguay participated. In addition to transferring knowledge regarding the administration, operation and efficient maintenance of water systems, the project also seeks to provide a vision concerning leadership and the comprehensive management of the resource. Furthermore, the project aims to generate greater democratic participation of the community and to strengthen the concepts of social responsibility in community enterprises. A second phase of the project focused on conducting a series of conversations, forums, local and regional activities, which identified the main problems affecting the communities.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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