National and Departmental Mechanisms for Social Control
The National and Departmental Mechanisms for Social Control represent civil society organizations at the departmental and national levels. They exercise the right of participation and social vigilance. They are legally constituted and recognized, and may be social, economic, cultural, trade union, professional, territorial, religious or other in character. Its main activities are to enforce the opinion of internal audits and report irregularities to the Comptroller General, reporting anomalies in departmental projects or in the adjudication and execution of municipal projects.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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