Local Resources Center
The Local Resources Center was created in June 1994, the result of a local community development workshop, which established the guidelines for future neighborhoods through a local strategic plan entitled "Cieneguita in the year 2000". This project was launched after a long process of proposals and reflections that lasted almost a year, with a high level of participation by local community organizations and in which the Project for Strengthening Community Self-Management followed the guidelines and designs set by the participants. The community mobilized its own economic resources, support from private enterprises and government and non-governmental aid to a total of $70 000 to date, invested in this building. Government organizations motivated by this construction and by the effectiveness of community organizations, made additional investments financing other works located in areas near the center. By 2016, three long-term training programs were underway: Small business training (10 weeks), Beauty salon training (daily classes for 1 month), Adult Baccalaureate (classes 3 days per week for 1 year). In addition, every weekend there were leisure activities, increasing the number of visitors.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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