Andean Consortium for Participatory Innovation with Small Farmers
The Andean Consortium for Participatory Innovation with Small Farmers is an international alliance of business and rural poor entities in Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, whose objective is to improve the level and quality of life of rural communities through the use of participatory methodologies in the production processes and lives of these rural communities. At all levels of implementation, local, regional or national management committees are formed with the rural poor whose purpose is to follow and execute participatory experiences in the country's agricultural production. The consortium consists of eight virtual networks, in which the rural poor and indigenous people are the primary stakeholders who exchange knowledge, experiences, technologies and methodologies, mainly by audiovisual means, developing the "rural poor-to-rural poor" strategy based on the use of modern computer technologies.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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