Strengthening Civil Society (AFOSCI)
The purpose of the Strengthening Civil Society initiative is to support the creation of citizen mechanisms such as neighborhood commissions, citizen-led oversights and consumer monitoring organizations. In addition, the initiatives provide training and accompany the process from formation to legal recognition. In this way, they achieved inclusion in areas of accountability and participatory budgets. Moreover, they have backed allegations of corruption and even achieved the dismissal of corrupt authorities.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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