Ideas for Change
Ideas for Change is a program created in 2012 that seeks to make the more vulnerable communities in different regions of the country assume the greatest needs to improve their quality of life, to be later resolved through their own self-help and with the scientific and innovative community. The needs proposed by the communities are prioritized by the local authorities and experts. The selected ones then receive proposals for solutions, of which the authorities with the communities themselves choose the best, to be implemented among all. The experience has been carried out across three different summons for the solution of water problems, energy and biodiversity. It has been found that the program has generated an increase in access to water, improved water quality and the health of participating communities. Likewise, it has made possible the creation of collaborative networks of knowledge thanks to the fact that it has placed in the same virtual space the less favored communities and the scientific and innovative community towards the construction of solutions.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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