Ecuador

Cantonal Council for the Protection of Rights

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2014 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Gobiernos Cantonales
Type of organization in charge: government
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: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Cantonal Council for the Protection of Rights is a cantonal body with broad participation from society whose purpose is to formulate, monitor and accompany policies for the protection of rights in an articulated manner with the National Councils of Equality. The Cantonal Council for the Protection of the Rights of Guachapala is one of these councils. It has been established as a body at the cantonal level that enjoys legal status under public law and organic, functional, administrative and financial autonomy. It exercises its attributions of formulation, observance, monitoring and evaluation of the municipal public policies for the protection of rights, articulated to the Public Policies of the National Councils for Equality. It is the coordinating entity of the Comprehensive Protection System of Guachapala canton. Both the Guachapala Council and the rest of the cantonal councils exercise powers in formulating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating public policies related to gender, ethnic, generational, intercultural, disability and human mobility in Milagro canton.

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: embedded in the constitution/legislation
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

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