Stop the Harassment
"Bájale al Acoso" (lit. Stop the Harassment) is a platform implemented by the local government of Quito, which enables citizens to report cases of sexual harassment in public transportation by sending an SMS with the word "harassment" and the bus ID to the authorities. Each report immediately activates a response mechanism that notifies the driver, who activates an alarm inside of the bus. Then, the Stop with Harassment's Brigade gets in touch with the victim within a maximum of 3 minutes, giving that person alternatives to file a complaint and receive protection. In the next stop or station, the Metropolitan police and a transport comptroller wait for the victim in order to offer their support. Since its implementation in 2017, this collaborative platform has received more than 1,500 complaints of sexual harassment, 43 of which have been taken to court and have lead to 10 guilty verdicts. Today, authorities are aiming to expand this service to districts outside 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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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