Melvin Jones Medical-Educational Center
The Melvin Jones Medical-Educational Center is a project that began in 1995 in the city of La Libertad, in the province of Santa Elena, in order to support families with children that have some kind of disability, in order to better integrate them to society. For this, the organization provides quality school monitoring, adapted to a professional training to facilitate the integration of young people into the labor market. In 2017, the Center registered 210 children, adolescents and adults benefitting from the activities developed by the Melvin Jones center. All of them came from different social social backgrounds.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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