Drinking water supply project for the Chota Valley
The Drinking water supply project for the Chota Valley was an initiative carried out by the Municipal Water and Sewerage Company of Ibarra (Span. EMAPAI) to provide basic water and sanitation services to the rural areas of the province of Imbabura. Dialogue forums between the company and the local communities were carried out through their representatives and with the whole community through general assemblies o in order to determine priorities. Throughout the project, the participation of all stakeholders involved in drinking water and sanitation projects was coordinated, resources invested and responsibilities shared and the participation of the population in the maintenance and management of the facilities was achieved. Afterwards they regisitered improvements in the service. Additionally, the Water Guardians program was conducted in local schools so that the children of classes four to seven learned about the protection and management of this resource. Two water treatment plants were opened in Juncal and in 2007.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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