Techo Costa Rica
The "Techo" initiative was born in Costa Rica in 2006 with the name "Un Techo para mi País", while the project was expanding throughout the Latin American region. The main objective of this project is the community development in the precarious settlements of the country, the promotion of social action and the denunciation of the social exclusion of vulnerable populations. The project is carried out in three phases: the first consists in the evaluation of the area; the second in the participatory planning of solutions to different problems (especially related to community infrastructure) that is carried out jointly with volunteers and citizens and is based on the results of the initial diagnosis; and the third phase the implementation of that agenda. Within the framework of this methodology and until 2017, Techo Costa Rica has built 1,700 emergency homes throughout the country. In addition, this organization has conducted a census of settlements and has implemented projects to improve common areas, school learning and youth savings in 21 Costa Rican communities.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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