Ecuador

Strengthening preparedness and response capacities in vulnerable peri-urban neighborhoods and organized structures in Guayaquil canton

City/State/Region: Guayaquil
Begin – End: 2013 – 2014
Name of organization in charge: Municipalidad de GuayaquilCARE InternationalUnión Europea (UE)
Type of organization in charge: government international organization
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: yes

Strengthening preparedness and response capacities in vulnerable peri-urban neighborhoods and organized structures in the Canton of Guayaquil is a project carried out by the International CARE Organization with funding from the European Commission and in cooperation with the Municipal Guayaquil Allies and the Directorate of Risk Management and Cooperation. The overall objective of the project is to reduce the risk of loss of human life and property damage to geological and meteorological phenomena in vulnerable areas of Guayaquil canton. To this end, the project aimed to strengthen the capacity of first response through the articulation of neighborhood committees, the strengthening of mechanisms for organization, coordination and communication, among other specific measures. The initiative began in 2013 and lasted until the end of 2014. About 64 250 people participated, all of them from Cerro El Jordán and Nueva Prosperina.

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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: single
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

Sources

http://www.care.org.ec/fortalecimiento-de-capacidades-de-preparacion-y-respuesta-en-barrios-peri-urbanos-vulnerables-y-estructuras-organizadas-del-canton-de-guayaquil-ecuador/