Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency
In 2010, organizations from the civil society in the region launched the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency (LANLT), a monitoring transnational mechanism that promotes transparency and accountability in Congress. The Network´s main aim is to promote good practices among the partner countries through peer benchmarking and shared research. LANLT publishes periodically reports, blog posts, interactive debates, videoconferences and newsletters to promote legislative transparency in the region. Notably, LANLT developed an index of legislative transparency that systemizes and analyzes the most relevant information about the national legislative branch of each country. The Network is now comprised by 24 organizations in 13 countries. In Peru, there are two member 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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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