Manos a la Costa
Manos a la Costa (lit. Hands to the Coast) is a regional project, powered by the civil society organization "Foundation for Peace and Democracy (FUNDAPEM)" and funded by the European Union, which seeks to strengthen the capacity for response to climate change in communities that are most affected. Because the Central American Caribbean is one of the high-risk regions facing global warming, it is one of the regions with the greatest social problems. The Manos a la Costa project aims to reduce vulnerability in coastal communities through sensitization, training, application of new production techniques and modification of different economic activities that have a negative impact on the region, actively involving local communities. The project contemplates risk management as a necessary action to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities to the effects of climate change. It also seeks to promote social dialogue, as a fundamental instrument for understanding the coastal communities, in order to jointly undertake adaptation and mitigation actions in the face of the negative impacts of climate change.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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