Management and Improvement of Drinking Water Infrastructure
The management and improvement of the drinking water infrastructure in the Pedro Moncayo canton was a project carried out by the Municipal Company for Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation of Pedro Moncayo canton, along with the Water and Sanitation Program for Rural Communities and Small Municipalities of Ecuador, belonging to the central government of the country, and with the collaboration of The German Technical Cooperation Office (GTZ). In order to ensure the provision of good quality drinking water for the whole population, improve administrative capacity to update the database and achieve an effective sanitation system, the participating institutions held a series of meetings with each of the parishes of the canton. Through these meetings it was decided that a municipal company represented by citizens would be established via a council of seven members: five community representatives, one from each parish, and two members of the municipal government: the mayor and another councilor. The meetings were essential for the implementation of the regional system of water supply and sanitation improvements. Among the results obtained, it has managed to provide access to drinking water 24 hours a day to populations that previously had only drinking water three days a week. In turn, 4761 connections were put into operation in urban and rural areas.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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