Techo El Salvador
"Techo" arrived to El Salvador after the two earthquakes that devastated the country in 2001. Throughout the years, this innovation has continued to work providing an answer to the natural disasters that hit the country. Moreover, it has also followed the main objective of the regional project, which is to promote community development in precarious settlements, social action, and the denunciation of the social exclusion faced by vulnerable populations. As in other countries of the Latin American region, the project is carried out in three phases: the first is the evaluation of the area; the second, the participatory planning of solutions to different problems (especially related to community infrastructure) that is carried out jointly with volunteers and citizens and is based on the results of the initial diagnosis; and the third phase is the implementation of said agenda. Within the framework of this methodology and until 2012, Techo El Salvador built 2,297 emergency homes. In addition, this participatory innovation also designed social empowerment plans (i.e.,providing education, health, productive development and legal support) in 27 communities of the country.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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