Adaptation Project for the Impact of the Accelerated Retreat of Glaciers in the Tropical Andes
The Project "Adaptation to the Impact of the Accelerated Retreat of Glaciers in the Tropical Andes" was carried out by the local chapter of the international organization CARE, in collaboration with the Municipal Drinking Water Company of Quito (Span. EMAAP-Quito) and the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (Span. SGCA). The general purpose of the initiative was to implement activities to adapt to the impacts of glacier retreat, through a participatory extension program with the communities of El Tambo, Papallacta and Comuna Jamanco (settled in the Papallacta area), with an emphasis on sustainable management and conservation of moors and micro-basins. To this end, it was sought to provide technical assistance, design and implement a participatory extension program with the beneficiary communities to strengthen their capacity to plan, implement, evaluate and innovate practices of adaptation to the impacts of climate change and glacier retreat, among other considerations. The project was carried out between 2009 and 2012 and was funded by the World Bank, the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), and the United States and Ecuadorian Coca-Cola Foundations.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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