Electoral Watch
Electoral Watch is an initiative formed by several civil society organizations with the objective of monitoring and observing the electoral processes in Guatemala in order to contribute to the promotion of open and transparent elections. Through qualitative and quantitative processes, this organization measures four electoral indicators that focus on: Supreme Electoral Tribunal, quick count, political organizations, and media. The results of the monitoring, as well as the reports, are published on its website. While this group was established in 2003 as a center for electoral research and analysis, in 2015 the organization expanded its objectives to include citizens and promote citizen participation.
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
- regular
- 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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