Public Oversights
Public Oversights are a mechanism to foster compliance with social control plans, programs, projects and contracts for the provision of a specific public service. The observers focus on the investigation and prevention of corruption. Implemented since the end of the 1990s in Ecuador, this mechanism was incorporated into the new constitution of 2008. They can be individuals or groups of people, or representatives of civil society organizations, who work on a voluntary basis at any level of public administration. Their responsibilities comprise the request of documents on issues under revision, the supervision of procedures for reviewing public management, and reporting to higher authorities on any problems emerging from their scrutiny.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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