COVID-19 Citizen Oversight Commission
The Covid-19 Citizen Oversight Commission was created in April 2020 by President Danilo Medina, as an independent body in charge of monitoring the purchases and contracts signed by the Government during the emergency triggered by the Covid-19 epidemic. As stated in the decree (145-20) through which the Commission was created, five representatives from different civil society groups were designated by the President as members of the Commission. The following organizations are represented in the Commission: The National Council of Private Enterprises, the Dominican Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises, the Evangelical Churches, the Catholic Church and the Dominican Newspaper Association.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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