Mexico

Mechanism for Social Participation in Daycare Centers

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2010 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
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 Mechanism for Social Participation in Daycare Centers facilitates, structures and systematizes the participation of parents in evaluating and improving the quality of service and safety conditions in the daycare centers of the Mexican Social Security Institute (Span. IMSS), through random selection, voluntary participation and homogeneity of information. On a monthly and random basis, 10% of the daycare centers in operation are selected in each of the 35 IMSS Delegations; in addition to selecting 10 previously visited daycare centers. For each day care center, 20 parents are selected; the first 7 to confirm, carry out the exercise. Each visit lasts 2 hours at which time the parents observe the safety conditions and take notes. At the end of the visit, they upload their observations to the Internet and obtain a report of results that is placed in a visible place of the day care center and integrated into its electronic file that can be consulted by the general public through the IMSS portal. Using the parental evaluation, areas of improvement are identified, which should then be addressed.

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: open
Type of participants: citizens
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