Bolivia

Promoting gender equity and transparency at the municipal level

City/State/Region: ArbietoSan Benito del Valle Alto
Begin – End: 2011 – 2012
Name of organization in charge: Ciudadanía
Type of organization in charge: civil society
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 project ?Promoting gender equity and transparency at the municipal level? was implemented in the municipalities of Arbieto and San Benito in the high valley of Cochabamba. Its objective was to promote the exercise of citizenship by women through actions generating processes of transparency in municipal management. It was structured around three components: 1) capacity building; 2) organizational strengthening by obtaining legal recognition from women's organizations; and 3) impacting municipal management. The leadership schools addressed women's organizations that were trained in citizens' rights and duties, mechanisms for participation in the public space, structuring of demands and instruments for organizational strengthening. The results of the process were agendas to make public information more transparent and promoting gender equity, which developed discussions with municipal authorities and projects that benefited women. As a result of the project, 5 women's organizations obtained their legal register and formed the Women's Organization of the Municipality of San Benito with a basis on community-based organizations.

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: single
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding 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