Comptroller's Office of the Solidarity Rural Communities Program
The Citizen Comptroller's Office of the Solidarity Rural Communities Program was a citizens' initiative to monitor and evaluate a social fund program in the municipalities of the North-eastern Region of Morazán. The main objective was to improve regional public management through the involvement of the citizens of the municipalities exercising social control. Local and regional institutions, citizens and government participated in the process. The members of the project included the Local Development Committee, the Intermunicipal Citizen Association for Local Development and the Cabinet of Departmental Management and the Northeastern Region of Morazán.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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