Participatory management system for local economic development
The Participatory management system for local economic development is an initiative carried out in 2003 by the Municipality of Pimampiro, along with the participation of territorial organizations, citizens and their organizations, and the support of the NGO Networks for Sustainable Development (REDES) and the Program for Territorial Rural Development (PRODER) of the Ecuadorian central government. This was done with the aim of building a territorial management system that would enable the populace to participate in decision-making aimed at achieving a comprehensive development along four primary concepts that the proposal assembled: human development, environmental and territorial development, economic development and political and institutional development. The work was done from the bottom up. From the communities and neighborhoods, to the parish and the canton, from the rural to the urban, from children and youth to adults. The neighborhoods were organized, and a Local Management Committee was created. The municipal government institutionalized the processes through ordinances. The beneficiary population has even provided cash to carry out the projects. Among some outstanding results are the access to drinking water by 80% of the population, health coverage 24 hours a day throughout the territory, a growth of 2% in employment, generation of work sources for youth and women In ICT and productive enterprises, and access to ICTs for 2000 children and young people.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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