National Forum on Citizen Participation
The National Forum on Citizen Participation was created with the aim to guarantee and enhance citizen participation. It was set in the framework of the Law of Citizen Participation promoted by former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales. The Forum was in charge of receiving requests from citizens or the organized civil society, as well as complaints about irregular acts of public officials, and sending them to the competent authorities, who are then resposible to hear the cases and resolve them. However, the National Forum on Citizen Participation was never formed and its rules were never put in place.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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