Social Control of the Bolivian Highway Administration
The Bolivian Highway Administration is responsible for planning and executing the construction of national highways. As a public institution, it has implemented a social control mechanism through its planning in which it seeks to include the opinion of those affected by and benefiting from its projects. Those affected or interested may submit petitions to the authorities and request information regarding the funds, planning status and construction deadlines. The mechanisms through which the social control is executed are: official letters presented by those affected by the Highway Administration, complaints presented in person and issues raised during official hearings.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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