The Encounters
Los Encuentros (lit. the encounters) is an initiative of Socialab Guatemala, a movement that aims to ideate and create entrepreneurship projects that have a social impact. This space of open ideation and innovation seeks to find sustainable solutions for social problems such as the extraction and exploitation of the country's natural resources and -in turn- aims to break the gap between rural areas and the Guatemalan capital, through political and social inclusion. For this, Socialab Guatemala has created an online platform, in which members of civil society can propose sustainable ideas of joint action between urban and rural territories. From this first phase, the selected innovations will be endorsed by leaders and key players of the place where they want to be implemented. Three of these ideas will be implemented together with the organization and will have a financing of USD 5,000. In addition to the online platform, conferences are also held in different parts of the country. They seek to inform the civil society about the possibility of creating, through dialogue, solutions to social conflicts. Finally, workshops for sustainable social transformation are also carried out.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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