Attentive with your vote!
In 2012, Citizen Participation, a civil society organization dedicated to promoting the transparency of government actions and including citizens in the political process, launched 'Attentive with your vote' - a website to promote citizen participation in the political processes through which citizens are summoned to send cases where citizens have witnessed or experienced violations of the electoral law (Law 275-97 of 1997). The mechanism was launched in preparation for the 2012 general elections and was also available for the 2016 elections. At the same time, marketing campaigns, awareness raising and rights education for citizens were launched through Facebook and YouTube. A total of 173 cases were recorded in 2012.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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