Zero waste: creating recycling routes in Guna Yala
The initiative "Zero waste: creating recycling routes in Guna Yala" seeks to implement a waste management program in four panamanian islands and is implemented by the National Association for the Conservation of Nature (ANCON), supported by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Kuna Yala Research and Development Institute (IIDKY), and Guna General Congress. For this purpose, civil society, in cooperation with the organizing institutions, participates debating and designing the measures that shall be taken for the creation of "recycling routes", that is, routes for the collection, storage and treatment of waste, as well as trade of recycled materials; that aim to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of the islands. Since recycling requires citizens? cooperation, the initiative includes educational campaigns on the topic, school events (for example, harvesting vegetable gardens), as well as cleaning of public areas, an activity carried out by citizens. Likewise, the initiative creates recycling associations on each of the islands. A total of 707 people participated in the project?s activities.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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