Citizen Oversight on Covid-19 Nicaragua
The Covid-19 Citizen Observatory was created in 2020 as a response from civil society to the inaction of the National Government in the face of the Coronavirus epidemic in the country. Given the lack of reliable and complete information about the magnitude of the public health crisis unleashed by the spread of the virus, a group of citizens, including doctors and other health professionals, voluntarily created the portal of the Observatory that contains a database of data on confirmed cases and suspected cases, as well as the number of deaths associated with the virus in the country and of Nicaraguan citizens abroad. The Observatory's data have been frequently cited by international media due to a lack of confidence in the official data of the National Government.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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