National Council of Support for Citizen Oversight
When Citizen Oversight was regulated in Colombia in 2003, this same law of regulation dictated the creation of the National Council of Support for Citizen Oversight to evaluate the policies that the national public institutions executed in the matter of Citizen Oversight. The members of this Council must come from the national monitoring entities and from delegates of the Citizen Oversight created at the different territorial levels and from non-territorial networks. The creation of the Citizen Oversight was ruled on in 1994 based on the Political Constitution of 1991 and was definitively regulated in 2003. All citizens in a plural form or through civil organizations such as: community, professional, youth, charitable or of common utility, non-governmental, non-profit making and constituted according to the law may constitute citizen oversight. They may exercise vigilance at the national, departmental, municipal and local levels. Although Citizen Oversight have been diffused and created in diverse territorial and thematic areas, many of them successfully, according to different authors and studies, there is no evidence to state that the National Council of Support for Citizen Oversight has been regulated, created or carried out in the country.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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