Dominican Republic

Dominican Network for the Sustainable Development of Renewable Energies (REDSER)

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2017 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Programa de Pequeños Subsidios del Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial de las Naciones Unidas (PPS-SGP/FMAM/PNUD)Fundación PopularGuakía Ambiente
Type of organization in charge: civil society international organization private stakeholders
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: no
Policy Outcome: -

The Dominican Network for the Sustainable Development of Renewable Energies is a joint project of the GEF Small Grants Program of the UNDP, the civil society organization Guakía Ambiente and the Fundación Popular. It brings together more than 50 community micro hydro-power plants in the country with the purpose of coordinating the exchange of knowledge and resources for sustainable development among communities. Its main goal is to guarantee democratic and participatory access to electricity by ensuring the access of citizens to the economic means necessary to benefit from the sources of renewable energy in their localities. The framework of the network includes: supporting communities through the conception of the project, establishing a trained technical team for the maintenance of the micro-plants and setting up a fund for eventual reparations of the system. Additionally, REDSER provides financial support for initiatives that make use of the clean energy for self-managed social and productive projects.

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: not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a binding decision
Co-Governance: no

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