Citizen Accountability
Accountability is a process by which all Colombian public entities must present to the citizens interested and affected by its management, the processes and results of this. Institutions are obliged to promote dialogue within accountability, so that citizens can know the information, ask for explanations about management and ask the necessary questions, which must be answered satisfactorily by the authorities. Any person may participate in the accountability of the entities, although the latter must ensure that the persons most interested and affected by their management are specially called. Although there are various regulations on accountability in Colombia, it can be shown that it has been legally established since 1998. Most public entities in Colombia hold public accountability hearings in compliance with the law. However, in many cases it has become a passive information presentation exercise, in which it is still necessary to improve interaction and responses to citizenship.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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