Colombia

Our Fight Against Corruption

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1999 – 2000
Name of organization in charge: Universidad de los AndesContraloría General de la República
Type of organization in charge: government private stakeholders
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

Our Fight Against Corruption was an exercise developed between 1999 and 2000 based on the idea of deliberative forums, created in order to respond to the need to propose new political alternatives to combat the persistent corruption in the country. The General Comptroller's Office, in order to put into operation its Comptroller Delegate's Office of the for Citizen Participation, proposed a project to work on promoting discussion among a large number of citizens about the problem of corruption and possible policies to combat it, as well as to promote responses from the side of the authorities to the demands and proposals of citizens. Given that the Department of Political Science at the University of the Andes had previous experience in the work and promotion of citizen deliberation with regards to the fight against corruption, a proposal for a joint project was put forward with the aim of resolving issues on the subject and strengthening the performance of civil society in the fight against corruption. To these ends, two-day workshops were held to allow citizen participation and dialogue with representatives of the state and strategic sectors of civil society, based on citizen forums and meetings, and a workshop for the elaboration of a Citizens' Agenda for the Fight against Corruption.

Institutional design

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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: single
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation