Defenders
The Defenders project is an initiative of the Association for Technology, Education, Development, Research, Communication (TEDIC), an organization led by human rights activists and professionals. Defensores consists of a web platform and an app for smartphones that allow the registration of cases of torture and abusive practices by the Paraguayan police. Both tools seek to improve the monitoring of this type of practice and generate first-hand information and data and then file complaints with the Ministry of Public Defense or, if applicable, activate the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture. In addition, these records serve to produce social pressure on the part of citizens and through the media.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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