Time Bank
Time Bank is a project developed by an NGO in collaboration with grassroots organizations and local government, with the purpose of promoting capacities and improving the quality of life of several neighborhoods in which the social fabric is extremely fragmented. Essentially, the Time Bank is established as an authority through which the neighbors exchange their services (measured in working time) while strengthening community ties and neighborhood leadership, increasing the possibility for political participation of the target population. There are currently more than 100 neighbors involved in each of the two branches where they are working. The program has allowed communities to strengthen ties among their members while generating a social fabric. Time Bank has led to an improved quantity and quality of the services that the neighbors can access. Furthermore, this project has generated a space that allows the improvement of the quality of life for the people involved.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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