Strengthening Andean organizations for advocacy on food security policies
"Strengthening Andean organizations for advocacy on food security policies" is a project carried out by the International Organization CARE with funding from the European Union and in collaboration with the Union of Peasant and Indigenous Organizations of Cotacachi -(UNORCAC) in the province of Imbabura-Cotacachi. The purpose of this initiative is to contribute to increase the participation of local social organizations in the processes of decision making regarding food security and nutrition. This is done by strengthening the capacities of poor and indigenous farmers' organizations, with emphasis on women's organizations at the subnational level. This initiative began in 2014 and its completion date is 2017. In addition to Ecuador, some areas in Bolivia and Peru are also reached by the project. An estimated of around 5000 farmers participated. Among the results are several local public policy proposals for food security and the generation of advocacy models at the regional, national and local levels.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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