Citizen Watch Center for Public Procurement of the Dominican Republic
The Citizen Watch Center for Public Procurement was set up in 2009 by the Participación Ciudadana and Foro Ciudadano civil society organizations in order to hold accountable the public procurement activities of 28 public institutions (all 18 Ministries, the Supervisory bodies, and the Legal and Financial Administration). It is based on the framework of Law 340-06 (Ley 340-06 sobre Compras y Contrataciones Públicas de Bienes, Servicios, Obras y Concesiones) from August 18, 2006. This law profoundly improved the efficiency and transparency of public procurement in the Dominican Republic. With the Watch Center, the organizations in charge seek to create a supervisory and observatory mechanism within the realm of said law. Furthermore, they seek to create a database displaying improvements and fallacies of its application. Ultimately, the observatory is also designed to support the dispersion of information about the rights and duties of public administration and state organs. Next to the general Watch Center, the organizations in charge also organized sub-observatories of the health and construction sector. Ultimately, the organizations publish a review report, discussing the collected results. In 2009/10 the Watch Center was the only authority organized by Participación Ciudadana. In 2012, the General Directorate for Public Procurement organized the review. With the observatory, the organizations in charge seek to create a supervisory and observatory mechanism within the realm of said law. Furthermore, they seek to create a database displaying improvements and fallacies of its application. Ultimately, the observatory is also designed to support the dispersion of information about the rights and duties of public administration and state organs. Next to the general Observation, the organisations in charge also organised sub-observatories of the health and the construction sector. Ultimately, the organizations publish a review report, discussing the collected results. The Observation in 2009/10 was the only instance organized by Participación Ciudadana. In 2012, the General Directorate for Public Procurement organized the review.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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