End abuse!
End abuse! is an initiative promoted by 103 civil society organizations and coordinated by the civil organization "Mexicans First" to promote civic culture, so that the co-responsibility, demands and participation of citizens can improve public policies, transparency and accountability of the national education system. Its website includes information about deviant or misappropriated resources and how it affects Mexicans. It also facilitates the signing of citizen petitions to demand that money allotted for education be used correctly. Moreover, the initiative carries out legal actions at legal institutions in Mexico demanding that they investigate individuals who are paid as teachers but do not teach. Finally, the page displays the Abusometer (Abusemeter), an electronic marker that accounts for the massive amounts of resources that are diverted or stolen from the education budget each year. The information is displayed on billboards around the city to encourage the democratic exercise of accountability and encourage educational improvement.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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