Environmental Sanitation Boards
The Environmental Sanitation Boards are community organizations that contribute to the development of local sanitation programs directed by the National Environmental Sanitation Service (Servicio Nacional de Saneamiento Ambiental, SENASA). Its members consist of users or direct beneficiaries of the works carried out in the community, who represent the rest of the population. The activities of its members vary from monetary or labor contributions to supporting the development of local sanitation programs. Together with SENASA, the sanitation boards are responsible for finding the right service providers and for managing the local sanitation systems.
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?
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Mode of selection of participants
- Type of participants
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision