- Dollarization as an emergency monetary redesign (Adaptability)
Ecuador adopted the US dollar as legal tender in January 2000 during a banking and currency crisis; a Central Bank review reports inflation falling from 96.1% in 2000 to below 8% in 2003 while the new regime removed the exchange-rate tool.
- 2016 earthquake national emergency coordination (Adaptability)
After Ecuador's 7.8-magnitude earthquake in April 2016, the national emergency committee reported 17 shelters and 59 temporary shelters active, assisting 25,931 people while mobile health units and security forces were deployed across affected provinces.
- Metro de Quito, a cross-administration urban rail delivery (Building)
Quito opened the first line of its metro in December 2023 after a multi-administration build, and the operator reported more than 54 million passenger trips during 2024 with uninterrupted service.
- SRI electronic invoicing at economy-wide scale (Coordination)
Ecuador's tax authority received approximately 3.299 billion electronic receipts from January through December 2024, using a legally mandated, digitally signed rail that connects private taxpayers to the public tax system.
- Crédito de Desarrollo Humano for beneficiary-led businesses (Coordination)
Ecuador's Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion reported delivering 44,622 Crédito de Desarrollo Humano loans in 2024, including 6,622 to Indigenous people, turning a social-transfer registry into small-enterprise finance and market-access support.
- Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant (Building)
Ecuador contracted the 1,500 MW Coca Codo Sinclair plant in October 2009 for USD 1,979.7 million with a 60-month term ending 5 October 2014; the plant entered commercial operation in November 2016, and a National Assembly oversight report found it had cost USD 2,712.5 million by August 2021, about 37 percent above the contract price, excluding a USD 599 million transmission line.
- Dinero Electrónico, the central bank mobile money system, and its closure (Building)
Banco Central del Ecuador built and ran a mobile money platform from 2014 that opened 360,916 accounts, signed up 4,860 establishments and carried more than 47 million dollars of transactions by August 2017, when the government and the financial system agreed that the central bank would stop holding the accounts and hand the service to banks and cooperatives.