Observatory of Public Procurement
The Observatory of Public Procurement (Observatorio Social de las Contrataciones Públicas - OSCP) was put into operation in 2012-13 by the directorate general for public procurement in order that civil society could hold accountable the activities of 28 public institutions (all 18 ministries, the supervisory bodies, and the legal and financial administration). The observatory 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 and its main aim is to supervise its implementation, monitor the online transparency of the directorate general on its website and call for public attention towards the work, efficiency and transparency of the directorate general. With the observatory, the organizations in charge seek to create a supervisory and observatory mechanism and a database displaying improvements and fallacies of the application of said Law. Ultimately, the observatory is also designed to support the dispersion of information about the rights and duties of public administration and state organs. Based on the success of the 2009-10 observatory initiated by the civil society organizations Participación Ciudadana (lit. Citizen Participation) and Foro Ciudadano (lit. Citizen Forum) as well as the recommendations reached at the round table of the Anticorruption Participatory Initiative, the directorate general installed this citizen observatory inviting eleven different civil society organizations to monitor the work of the directorate and the institutions of the Dominican government ? at the national, regional and local level.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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