Observatory of Legislative Performance
The Observatory of Legislative Performance is an initiative carried out by the civil organization Transparencia that aims to monitor the legislative action and inform the rest of the civil society and citizens about what is happening in the National Congress. The tool was developed in 2016 and since then, the Observatory has published annual reports that evaluate fourteen indicators about three major themes in Congress: legislative action, integrity and representative action. Aside from the annual reports, the Observatory constantly produces articles that inform about the current action in Congress. Finally, the initiative also produces a Congress profile which citizens can access if they want to get to know who their representatives are.
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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