Honduras

Municipal Observatories for Coexistence and Citizen Security

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2014 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Secretaría de Seguridad
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

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: yes

The Municipal Observatories for Coexistence and Citizen Security (OMCSC) were implemented in 2014 by the Honduran Ministry of Security. The observatories were implemented in the 30 municipalities that registered the highest levels of violence and criminality with the objective of generating evidence-based information that allows to define actions focused on the reduction of the violence and insecurity levels. Additionally, the observatories also work as spaces for institutional articulation for decision-making and the evaluation of results on security matters. These observatories publish regular newsletters with data and statistics regarding the security situation in each of the municipalities. Furthermore, the observatories? staff -which includes government, civil society, and private sector- receives constant training and workshops by national universities and institutes, as well as international organizations, in topics related to security analysis. Regarding their effectiveness, and according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), between 2015 and 2018 the homicide levels registered a decrease of 34.1% in the municipalities were the observatories were implemented.

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 a non-binding 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