Communitary Micro hydroelectric power stations
The ?Micro Hydroelectric Power Stations? are the product of a project led by the United Nations Program for Development (UNPD) which began in 2011 and aimed at building small-scale electric power generating facilities in order to improve the quality of life of marginalized communities. The construction of the power stations was coordinated by civil society organizations such as Sur Futuro and included the participation of citizens as voluntary workers. The National Institute for Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI) and the Unit for Rural and Sub-urban (UERS) were the public agencies that contributed to the project. These power plants are not part of the National Inter-Connected Electric System; the management and operation of the power plants is done entirely by local citizen associations.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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