Citizen Monitoring of the Open Government Plan
The Open Government Partnership (OGP), launched in 2011, is an international initiative that aims to spread and encourage global governmental practices related to public transparency, access to public information and citizen participation. Eight countries were founding members of this network; among them, Brazil. Based on this platform, Brazil launched the first edition of the Brazilian Action Plan for an Open Government which included various initiatives on different topics: public transparency, the 1st National Conference on Transparency and Social Control, the improvement of the Brazilian Transparency Portal, the promotion of discussions on the issue with society, among others. The general report published by the Brazilian government and by the OGP indicates that 25 of the 32 proposals in the first plan were fully accomplished. In 2019, a call is open for citizen participation in the monitoring of its 4th Action Plan.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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