Urban Agriculture Program in Cuenca (PAUC)
The Urban Agriculture Program in Cuenca (Span. PAUC) is an initiative promoted by the City of Cuenca in 1998 in order to recover cultural traditions and reduce food insecurity caused by the economic crisis in Ecuador. The project was carried out through the promotion and reinforcement of urban and ecological agriculture practices among the population. Priority has been given to the most disadvantaged sectors, with the purpose of securing them a food reserve, while generating employment and marketing surpluses. For the PAUC, interested institutions, community groups and citizens individually established sets of projects and activities. Among the results obtained by this project, were 190 families and institutions that began to produce organic food for consumption and marketing, using local resources and improving their nutrition and income, as well as strengthening their organization and increasing the quality of their environment. At the same time, emphasis was placed on project ownership by the participants, the population showed growing interest as the activities progressed. The number of citizens engaged in and benefiting from the project is estimated to be around 3000.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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