Citizen Pact's COVID-19 Monitoring Initiative
Citizen Pact? (Span. Pacto Ciudadano) is a group made up of more than one hundred civil society organizations in Guatemala. This group proposed to the Government and Congress of Guatemala a strategy to include civil society in the management of everything related to the COVID-19. The proposals included the creation of a committee to monitor and evaluate the use of public funds to address the pandemic. The committee would be composed of representatives from civil society, the private sector, cooperatives, and government. In addition, Citizen's Pact" proposed the creation of five committees made up of academic staff and experts in the fields of: epidemiology, territory, economics, productivity, and communication, with the objective of advising the government on the management of the pandemic.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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