Bolivia

Montero Limited Public Services Cooperative

City/State/Region: Montero
Begin – End: 2001 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Cooperativa de Servicios Públicos Montero Limitada (COSMOL)
Type of organization in charge: government civil society 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: yes

The Montero Limited Public Services Cooperative is the entity in charge of sustainably managing and administrating the potable water and sanitary sewer services of the city of Montero. Since 2001, it has worked through a strategic alliance with grassroots territorial organizations, neighborhood councils, the Vigilance Committee, the Regional Workers' Center, and public institutional sectors such as Education and Health. It has facilitated the instrumentalization of the cooperative environment as a tool for poverty reduction, ensuring family health insurance, mortuary insurance, construction of sanitary modules, and the donation of materials that connect houses to sewers. Other achievements include the establishment of direct democracy with the universal, direct and secret vote to elect the directors of each district and the president and vice president of the Cooperative, the installation of basic sanitation teaching modules in school units, and the implementation of the Total Transparency System over the Internet.

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: both
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a binding 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