Committees for Transparency and Citizen Vigilance
The Committees for Transparency and Citizen Vigilance are carried out by the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Span. MIDIS) with the dual objective of guaranteeing transparency in the execution of various social programs and of protecting the social aims and rights of the beneficiary populations through the monitoring of its implementation and the use of resources. The Committees operate at local, regional and national levels with participation (ad honorem) of citizens representing various organizations as well as representatives of communities. It is an autonomous body of control with extensive functions in regard to the requirement of information, alert and supervision.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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