Inclusion of Indigenous Women in the Participatory Budgeting Project
The Project for the Inclusion of Indigenous Women in the Participatory Budgeting Process was an initiative promoted by the Municipality of Santa Ana de Cotacachi, headed by an indigenous mayor elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2000 and 2004. First, the municipality established annual cantonal assemblies and subsequently created Women's Coordination Committees. In 2002, based on the increasing participation of women in state affairs, the participatory budget was created. Its purpose was to promote multi-ethnic, intergenerational and women's participation. This was established in order to add transparency to management and achieve self-management in order to increase the economic contribution of society. Also, in 2003 a Monitoring and Follow-up Committee was set up by members of the community. However, the culminating point of the project came later when a Participatory Budget was created, in which the participation of indigenous women from rural areas was especially sought. The results of this initiative include the majority involvement by women in the 2003 literacy campaign, reaching out to indigenous women and adult women, leading to Cotacachi being declared by the United Nations as Ecuador's first free-standing canton. Participation also led to a significant increase in rural electrification, reaching 95% coverage in the subtropical area.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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