Ecuador

Legislative Observatory

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2012 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Fundación Ciudadanía y DesarrolloEmbajada de CanadáPan American Development Foundation
Type of organization in charge: civil society international organization
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

The Legislative Observatory is a civil society initiative that brings together students and social organizations with the primary purpose of monitoring the functioning of the National Assembly. This project seeks to open a bridge between the citizens and their representatives, to promote the knowledge of the Ecuadorian parliament and the democratic system in general. To this end, the Legislative Observatory provides understandable and accessible analyses for citizens, researchers and academics from Ecuador and beyond. The initiative monitors the citizen representatives who are part of the parliament, as well as the ongoing bills and other activities of the legislative body. Among the products produced by the initiative is the publication of general reports, as well as the analysis of specific laws and follow-up sessions. This project started in 2013 and remains active in 2017. The Legislative Observatory is supported by the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador and the Pan-American Development Foundation.

Institutional design

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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: regular
Mode of selection of participants: both
Type of participants: civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: no

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://www.observatoriolegislativo.ec/