Citizen Observatories
The Citizen Observatories are a mechanism to monitor the citizens and social organizations that are interested in developing diagnostics and assessments for compliance of a given public policy. It is a mechanism for participation, social control and influence in the management of the public, for the effective enjoyment of rights established in the Constitution of the Republic and international regulations. The results do not lead to binding decisions, but make reports with public policies. It is made up of citizens or citizen organizations that are interested in working together with the academy and experts, diagnostics, technical and independent monitoring to promote, evaluate, invigilate and monitor compliance with public policy. In 2014, nine citizen observatories were created.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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