Municipalities on the Spotlight
Municipalities on the Spotlight in an online platform that monitors and reports on who integrates the municipalities in Guatemala and whether or not there are acts of corruption occurring on them. This initiative, developed by the independent journalism company ojoconmipisto.com, is meant to shed light on 40 municipalities in Guatemala. Each municipality was questioned, through requests for access to public information, on their budgets, findings, settlements and sanctions in audits, criminal cases and complaints as well as contracts and the companies registered in the procurement procedures.
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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