Network of Citizen Comptrollers of Paraguay
The Network of Citizen Comptrollers of Paraguay (span. Red de Contralorías Ciudadanas del Paraguay, RCCP) is a network of organizations that monitor the performance of governments as well as the use of public funds with the goal to prevent corruption. Established in 2001 with 15 Citizen Comptrollers (CC), the RCCP expanded to 75 organizations, covering more than 70 municipalities in the country. Each organization is comprised of 15 to 20 members, who are either volunteers or members of the organization, ensuring that the Citizen Comptrollers strictly consist of individuals from civil society. Each organization has a coordinating committee, an electoral committee and a representative, all of whom are replaced every five years. Activities include: public meetings and training sessions to raise citizen awareness of the benefits of transparency; tracking cases of corruption until they are resolved and coordinating activities with other civil society organizations.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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