Honduras

Official Consultation Days for an Open Government 2014

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2014 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Dirección Presidencial de TransparenciaModernización y Reforma del Estado
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Official Consultation Days for an Open Government were created within the framework of the Honduran Open Government Alliance (AGA) as a space of inclusive participation for the state, civil society, private companies, academia and other citizen sectors. These consultation days are the fundamental pillar for the construction process of the II and III Honduras Open Government Action Plan (II PAGAH 2014-2016 and III PAGAH 2016-2018). These participatory spaces facilitate the identification of the most important needs of citizens and allow actors to frame them in the principles and challenges of the Open Government Alliance. The systematization of these issues then become potential commitments to include in the Action Plans. By 2016, the Institutions responsible for fulfilling the commitments indicated in the Second Honduras Open Government Action Plan (II PAGAH 2014-2016) had submitted and validated evidence that indicated that 23 milestones had been completed and the remaining as had made significant progress.

Institutional design

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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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation