The Observatory of Public Procurement in the Dominican Republic - Monitoring in the Construction Sector
The Observatory of Public Procurement was installed in 2009 by the civil society organizations Participación Ciudadana (lit. Citizen Participation) and Foro Ciudadano (lit. Citizen Forum) in order to hold public procurement activities of 28 public institutions accountable. Ultimately, the observatory is designed to support the dispersion of information about the rights and duties of public administration and state organs. Next to the general observatory, the organizations in charge also organized sub-observatories of the health and the construction sector. Seven institutions in the construction sector (Ministry for Construction and Communication, national institutes for the supervision of engineers, water, hydraulics and public transport, among others) were asked to submit information of their procurement activities. Moreover, information for the observatory was gathered through the review of public announcements across seven main newspapers, the websites of the organizations in question, the website of the Directory General for Public Procurement as well as questionnaires distributed by the NGO Participación Ciudadana. Ultimately, the organizations published a report, discussing the collected results.
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
- no
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