Ecuador

Caimito Sustentable Association

City/State/Region: Muisne
Begin – End: 2012 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Asociación Caimito Sustentable
Type of organization in charge: civil society
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: no
Policy Outcome: -

After the El Niño weather phenomenon in 1997, the Caimito area was partially isolated from the rest of the province. This contributed towards it being one of the best conserved areas of the coastal area of ??Ecuador nowadays, home to great biodiversity endemic to the biogeographic choco. In 2007, the inhabitants of Caimito began an assembly process that gave way to various initiatives for community organization. The Caimito Sustentable Association, which began in 2012, prioritizes the development of the community along with the conservation of the territory for future generations. Their main goal is to promote eco-friendly agroecological practices and sustainable tourism projects. The association is also actively involved in curbing initiatives that threaten the harmony of the territory and the community, such as irresponsible logging, eucalyptus plantations, large-scale tourism and the advancement of drug trafficking networks in the region. Caimito Sustentable seeks to strengthen the social fabric of the community through mingas, collective meals and open meetings for the ideation and implementation of local projects.

Institutional design

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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: open
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: no

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Evaluation