Public Accountability Meetings of the House of Representatives
The Public Accountability Meetings were created in 2015 with the purpose of creating spaces for interaction that will allow the establishing and strengthening of democratic dialogue between citizens and their representatives in the different legislative bodies (Senate, House of Representatives and Municipal Council). In this way, it is sought that the inhabitants of a territory can identify who represents them according to the results of the elections, and can be informed about its legislative work and know how it responds to the needs and expectations of the community of that territory in particular. These meetings seek to foster dialogue between representatives so that citizens can organize, mobilize and collectively monitor legislative management, calling for accountability. The meetings are organized by the Corporation for Public Accountability - CONTRIAL - with the support of Somos Más Corporation and Ocasa Corporation. So far, two meetings have been held with the first representative to the Chamber for Bogotá, who agreed to participate in the dialogues, to listen to the needs of the citizens of the area of the city they represent, and to commit themselves to accountability in follow-up meetings according to the dialogue. Although attendees to the meetings are invited, especially the inhabitants of the area of the city where the meeting is being held, all citizens and interested persons in general are invited and can attend.
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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