Health for the People of Santa Elena Peninsula
Health for the People on the Santa Elena Peninsula is a project initiated in 1991 by the Rotary Associations of Roseburg and Salinas in partnership with Public Health International, FASBASE, and Corporación Porvenir, in order to develop a health program that solves water-related diseases, reduces child mortality, provides clean water for drinking and sanitation and prevents mosquito-borne diseases. To this end, the participating organizations trained the public health committees in each region so that they themselves could identify and solve the health problems of their communities. In effect, each public health committee in each village designated a health educator who led regional training seminars on health, so as to raise public awareness and educate villagers. The health education program was funded by the central government. Subsequently, each village developed and implemented a self-sustaining water supply infrastructure, providing clean water for drinking and sanitation, and reducing the incidence of cholera, malaria and dengue. Achievements include the construction of 4000 latrines (with private facilities for 79% of households), the design and integration of water systems and the development of water use and maintenance guidelines and distribution of chlorinated water. The project was completed in 1998.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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