The Accelerator Lab framework was conducive to pilot different initiatives to counteract the effects of the pandemic.181 For example, it enabled cash-for-training to produce PPE, supporting the livelihoods of a seamstress network in Quito. The network received training through digital tutorials, open-licensed digital patterns, and formally consolidated and established contacts with external partners, thereby strengthening livelihood sustainability for the 26 participating seamstresses. Another initiative was aimed at grassroots recyclers,182 with four pilot routes for differentiated waste collection during the first months of the pandemic, using a behavioural economics methodology and a mobile application, resulting in more than six metric tonnes of recyclables handed over to grassroots recyclers for commercialization.
2.4 Outcome 4: Democratic governance CPD Outcome 4. By 2022, Ecuador has stronger, coordinated institutions favouring public governance and citizen participation in protection for rights, consolidating democratic society, peace and equality. Related outputs: OUTPUT 4.1. Institutions strengthened for efficient, transparent, participatory governance of public policies in line with the SDGs. OUTPUT 4.2. Local governments strengthened to exercise their competencies in a participatory manner, and contribute to localizing the SDGs in their territory. A total of nine projects, with nine project outputs, were implemented under Outcome 4, with a budget of $4.7 million and expenditure of $2.9 million.183 UNDP directly implemented seven projects (99 percent of expenditure) and two were nationally implemented (1 percent of expenditure). Bilateral and multilateral funds were the primary source of funding for this outcome, at approximately 50 percent ($1.4 million). Key funders of the portfolio were UNDP with 25 percent of expenditure, followed by Guayaquil local authority (14 percent of expenditure), the Government of Germany (13 percent of expenditure) and the Government of Ecuador (12 percent of expenditure).
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Project ID 118535. Worker who selects, collects, recovers, transforms, markets and reuses solid waste. Their livelihood depends on the its sale. The financial resources correspond to the period: 2017 to June 2021.
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