Social Monitoring of the Chamber of Accounts
According to Law 10-04 of January 20, 2004, the Dominican Chamber of Accounts is subject to social monitoring exercised by citizens. The legal framework takes as its starting point that the social monitoring of government expenditures can only take place if the information is available to citizens in an impartial and open manner; therefore, legal conditions were drafted to empower citizens to make informed decisions in their supervision of that chamber. In addition to providing an online complaint form on its website, the account chamber also collects complaints over the telephone (311). In addition, citizens can personally file complaints about incidents of misconduct or legal violations by chamber staff at the same offices.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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