Honduras

National Network of Volunteers for Electoral Observation and Rapid Counting

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2009 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Hagamos Democracia
Type of organization in charge: civil society
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: -
Policy Outcome: -

The National Network of Volunteers for Electoral Observation and Rapid Counting is an initiative created by the consortium "Hagamos Democracia" (lit. Let?s Make Democracy), which is integrated by leaders and volunteers who perform social audits through electoral observation and rapid counting in 18 departments and 298 municipalities of the country, strengthening citizen participation and electoral transparency. By 2016, the consortium of Hagamos Democracia was singled out as the only independent coalition with experience in rapid counting and citizen electoral observation, as it had successfully counted a primary election and two general elections in the country. Around 1200 citizens participated in the three cases in which the network was put into operation. Hagamos Democracia acted as an electoral observer. Citizens were distributed based on a random sample in the 18 departments and 271 of the 298 municipalities of the country. Hagamos Democracia presented the data, the estimates of the results and conclusions on the day of the presidential election of November 24, 2013.

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: sporadic
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: no

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