Loja Learning Dialogues for Hydrographic Demarcation
The Loja Learning Dialogues for Hydrographic Demarcation are an initiative conducted by governmental authorities, through which, for 6 months, the Kichwa, Cofan, Siona, Secoya Waorani and Shuar communities, villages and nationalities and their ancestral knowledge about water could be identified and registered. In general, the dynamic of the learning dialogues seeks to offer a bridge between the knowledge of the communities from the target areas, and the dominant knowledge established outside these areas. The purpose of these dialogues is to develop a better institutional and citizen plan for the comprehensive and integrated management of water resources, including the conservation, recovery and valuation of this knowledge for the sustainable development of these peoples, communities and nationalities via a common effort from other sectors of the social and solidarity economy; as is the case in matters of prevention of pollution and mitigation of water risks caused by climate change. Thus, in this case, the dialogues seek to identify and document ancestral knowledge of the communities, peoples and nationalities that are within the hydrographic demarcation zone, so that they will not be lost. Having finished this phase, social management technicians will be in charge of executing the proposal. Of the records surveyed, two of these dialogues have proceeded, with a total participation of approximately 55 people between 2013 and 2014.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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