Social Witness of Public Purchases
The Social Witness is a mechanism for citizen participation in the management of public procurements. Its institutional design favors the input of civil society on the matter at hand. They are representatives from civil society (individuals or organizations) whose function is to bear witness, with speaking rights, to verify that procurement procedures are carried out with legality and transparency. The outcome intends to improve public institutions and combat corruption in public administration.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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