Female citizens for transparent public management
"Female citizens for transparent public management" was a project of the civil association of Citizenship, Community of Social Studies and Public Action, carried out in 2010-2011. Its objective was to contribute to the achievement of a transparent public management through the exercise of citizenship, based on the work of Quechua-speaking women leaders of social organizations, in order to enforce the constitutional right of access to information in the municipalities of Arbieto and San Benito in the high valley of Cochabamba. The first phase of the project built the concepts of transparency, gender and gender equity from the experience of Quechua speaking women. The concepts were disseminated by women to the population, to social organizations and to public institutions. In the second phase of the project, citizen initiatives were formulated and developed to promote transparency in public management and sensitize the population about the importance of exercising the constitutional right of access to public information. Women designed and adopted strategies to influence municipal authorities. One of the achievements of the project was that municipal governments promoted measures to support women and transparent municipal investment.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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