Civic Lab Ecuador
Civic Lab Ecuador is an initiative that involves local civil society representatives in developing a series of organizations aimed at promoting social transformations. This project was implemented in 2015 and 2016 in various Latin American countries, and has remained active in 2017. In Ecuador, the initiative took place in 2015 and consisted of the development of a series of proceedings focused on the following questions: How to achieve a greater impact on the current situation of the country? How to correctly identify a public problem, the stakeholders involved, and generate a work plan in search of a solution? The proceedings were developed under the School of Incidence name, and were ordered as follows: first, as face-to-face workshops to learn about the dynamics of Civic Laboratories. Then, the implementation of such methodologies in a civic laboratory. Third, the implementation of projects and fourth the evaluation and reporting of the initiatives. Likewise, with the proceedings carried out, a communication and advocacy strategy is developed in the public agenda of the country. This is achieved by defining a launch for the developed product, activities for positioning in media and social networks, and the promotion of the tool. One of the results of the work carried out in Ecuador was the ReciVeci project, an initiative with active citizen participation at the local level that seeks to generate a recycling culture through a human bond between the recycler and the conscious citizen, which stimulates the act of recycling in the neighborhoods of Quito.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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