Special Program for Food Security (PESA)
The Special Program for Food Security (Span. PESA) is an initiative promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which is implemented in 18 countries including Ecuador and in 2001, in Manabi province, where 530 families were affected by the effects of the El Niño meteorological phenomenon. The purpose of the project was to improve food security through crop diversification and irrigation. Extra emphasis was placed on providing training to use water sustainably, as well as improving soils and producing new types of crops. The project also promoted post-harvest techniques and the organization of local rural poor groups. By collaborating with the rural poor and other stakeholders to identify and resolve technical, economic, social, institutional or regulatory constraints and by demonstrating ways to increase production, PESA set out to promote better productivity and access to food.
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
- single
- 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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