Women recovering Public Space: Initiatives and Citizen Proposals for Equality
The "Women recovering Public Space: Initiatives and Citizen Proposals for Equality Project (2013-2014)" aimed to promote the participation of Quecha women in public spaces, raising awareness on women's rights, carrying out social control over municipal services, and influencing local and departmental norms that benefit gender equity and the full exercise of women's rights. It was financed by Connection and Emancipation Fund with resources from different international cooperation agencies. It took place in 8 municipalities of the high valley of Cochabamba: Cliza, Punata, Arbieto, San Benito, Toco, Tarata, Arani and Tolata.
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
- 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
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