Accountability Forum: "Open Forum with People"
The "Open Forum with People" is a mechanism for citizen participation and accountability attended by organizations, institutions and companies with which the Ministry of Public Works has entered into contracts. Headlines tell citizens about the progress of public works, what has been done and what not, as well as provide information on the financial projections. It is held annually in June. Participants come from communities where they were or will be performing works, as well as the population in general. In 2010, the first accountability forum was held, counting on an attendance of approximately one thousand people
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- 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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