Social Observatory of Brasília
The Social Observatory of Brasilia was created by citizens with the purpose of monitoring public spending in the Federal District. It thus seeks to foster social control of public spending, increase transparency and promote citizens' fiscal education. Citizens participate in the observatory and contribute in different categories of "associates". Any citizen may apply to participate; however, the Observatory's Administrative Direction is the one who makes the final decision regarding their admission and permanence in the institution.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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