Democratization, Rights and Intercultural Dialogue for Ethnic Inclusion in Northern Border Areas of Ecuador
The Democratization, Rights and Intercultural Dialogue for Ethnic Inclusion in Northern Ecuador is an initiative promoted by the International Organization CARE, with funding from the European Union and in collaboration with the International Center for Advanced Studies in Communication for Latin America (Span. CIESPAL). The project seeks to contribute to the strengthening of processes aimed at overcoming ethnic and gender oppression in indigenous and Afro-descendants, supporting culture and communication and rights as a condition of democratization processes, revaluation of diversity and interculturality and socio-economic development. In particular, it seeks to strengthen cultural expressions that contribute to the enhancement of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue, ethnic and gender equality, and the exercise of human and cultural rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant populations in the northern border region of Ecuador. Processes of democratization of the country. The project was carried out between 2014 and 2016. It involved 8150 people from different communities, such as Awá, Kichwas and Afro-descendants, among others, and the results obtained include the training of cultural agents from different populations and the dissemination of its cultural heritage through cultural recovery and the production and promotion of interculturality.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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