Citizen Observatory on Human Rights and HIV in Panama
The Citizen Oversight on Human Rights and HIV is a non-governmental institution created by civil society organizations, which collects complaints about human rights violations faced by patients with HIV in Panama. Frequent complaints include stigma, discrimination, layoffs, obstacles getting a job, and lack of medicines. The purpose of the oversight body is to collect information on HIV patients? access to Human Rights, in order to generate inputs that serve to improve the country's public policies in this field. One of the goals achieved by the Citizen Oversight was developing an index on stigma and discrimination faced by HIV patients in the country. Additionally, the institution generates digital campaigns promoting awareness around HIV and Human Rights.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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