Ecuador

Support for artisans in Montúfar

City/State/Region: Montúfar
Begin – End: 2013 – 2014
Name of organization in charge: Fundación EsquelGobierno de Montúfar
Type of organization in charge: government civil society
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: -

Support for artisans in the Montúfar canton was an initiative promoted by the Esquel Foundation NGO and the Autonomous Decentralized Government of Montúfar, as part of the Economic Development Plan for a group of artisans in the canton, located in the province of Carchi (northern Ecuador). This initiative was designed to be carried out during the years 2013 and 2014 and consisted of the realization of a participatory socioeconomic diagnosis of the conditions of the artisan sector, identifying critical nodes and achievements, the definition of strategic development factors - elements that will be useful for the elaboration of the development plan. The purpose of this initiative was to promote heritage, patrimonial tourism, culture, recovery of memory, and development of the target community. The first phase focused on the diagnosis and was contemplated as a participatory instance in which the community had to take an active part in the analysis of the artisan sector, as well as in the survey of the antecedents about the participation of the community in the artisanal subject. Finally, it was sought to carry out a mapping of community organizations related to the administration, organization and operation of handicrafts and potential conflicts.

Institutional design

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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

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation