Las Marías Women and Family Support Center
The "Las Marías" Women and Family Support Center was created in 2001 with the aim of attending to the victims of gender violence and contributing to its eradication. The initiative comes from the Ecuadorian NGO "Services for an Alternative Development of the South" (Span. SENDAS), along with the vicar of Gualaceo and the cooperative TEJEMUJERES and the Human Rights Commission. Among its main objectives is to provide professional quality care to the family with regards to ??intra-family violence, coordinating with public and private institutions working on anti-violence initiatives. Alongside this the center informs, sensitizes, educates and promotes issues of gender violence and domestic violence. The "Las Marías" Women and Family Support Center is part of the National Network of Care Centers for Victims of Violence in Ecuador, and therefore has a collectively built Care Model from 2010. The target population of the center is mainly women, girls, boys and adolescents: whistleblowers are between 15 and 90 years old. The services of Las Marías are destined to the inhabitants of Gualaceo (8 parishes), and also to those of the neighboring cantons of Paute, Chordeleg, Sigsig and Cuenca.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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