Observatory of Maternal and Child Healt
The Observatory of Maternal and Child Health, known as Observatory of Maternal Death until 2019, was launched in 2014 in reaction to the increasing numbers of maternal deaths in the Dominican Republic. In compliance with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the National Health Institute (Instituto Nacional de la Salud), in collaboration with 59 civil society organizations, launched this observatory of maternal death. The aim is to create an open, autonomous and inter-institutional citizen space which seeks to hold politicians accountable for their actions in ensuring an increasing transparency in measures undertaken for the reduction of maternal deaths.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
Means
|
Ends
|
