Citizen Guardians
The Citizen Guardians program is an initiative of the local government of Chihuahua, through which citizens monitor compliance with existing contracts with companies for the maintenance of the city's parks and gardens, as well as the development of public works, for example: problems in the execution of works, administrative failures, and possible acts of corruption. The civil inspectors are also trained to follow up on the implementation of the projects resulting from the participatory budget. The initiative has also developed a digital form where citizens can submit complaints to contribute to the monitoring process.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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