Committees of the Andean Alliance for Change
The Andean Alliance for Change was a regional program for cooperation between social and business organizations between Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to include in the participatory processes the poorest producers in the regions, and support the introduction of technological innovation in agricultural practices. In Ecuador, the program primarily consisted on the formation of local committees in order to include small farmers and incorporate their knowledge of rural production. Accross countries, the Andean Alliance for Change sought to put into use a wide scope of participatory methodologies to adress and discuss rural poverty. For example, by empowering small farmers through deliberation and capacitation workshops, and by mentoring their efforts to access decisionmaking fora, leveraging the local relevance of knowledge about ancestral production practices and products to advocate for social inclusion in supply chain systems.
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 a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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