Citizen Law Initiative
The Citizen Law Initiative is a mechanism of participation deemed valid when at least three thousand citizens present a legal initiative to the National Congress for discussion and approval or rejection on behalf of the Plenary. The Citizen Law Initiative is done in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic, the Citizen Law Initiative and the Internal Regulation of the National Congress. The document containing the bill must include the full name, identity number, address, fingerprint and autograph signature of those who support the initiative. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal must carry out the process of verifying the data of the citizens that present a Law Initiative. By 2016, the citizen law initiative participatory mechanism had allowed different groups of Honduran citizens to present initiatives on the basis of their interests and needs.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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