Curuguaty Observers
The campaign "Let's be Observers in [the Trial in] Curuguaty" was a citizen monitoring initiative organized to follow the oral and public trial of the campesinos prosecuted for the Curuguaty case. The campaign invited citizens and civil society organizations to register as observers of the trial to guarantee compliance with procedural rules, impartiality and respect for the rights of the accused. To this end, they called to register as an official observer of the trial or to attend courts to exert social pressure in defense of due 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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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