Citizen Control Network
The Citizen Control Network is a space that arises from the articulation of a group of social organizations interested in the subject of public policies in order to follow up on the proposal of the Government of Costa Rica to formulate the National Report, which would account for the fulfillment of the stated goals in the Millennium Development Goals and which would simultaneously contain the national targets for 2015. The aforementioned government initiative took place in November 2004 when the Government of Costa Rica convened a variety of civil society organizations to report on the start of the process. The Network presents itself as an ample and flexible space that generates processes of social mobilization for political incidence and the control of public policies. The Network involves citizens to promote participation and expand democracy; and to add efforts and experiences to generate processes with greater impact.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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