Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control
The Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control is a democratic innovation whose purpose is to promote the exercise of the rights to participation, to promote and establish mechanisms of social control and transparency, and to designate authorities to participate in other legally provided participation mechanisms. It was created from the Federal Constitution of 2008 as an autonomous entity that conforms to the function of transparency and social control of the State, known as the "fifth power" of the Republic of Ecuador. This Council is one of the main democratic innovations created in the new Ecuadorian constitutional framework. Its members are elected for three years, based on nominations made by general citizens and by social organizations within the framework of a process organized by the National Electoral Council.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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