Colombia

Citizen Accountability

Accountability is a process by which all Colombian public entities must present to the citizens interested and affected by its management, the processes and results of this. Institutions are obliged to promote dialogue within accountability, so that citizens can know the information, ask for explanations about management and ask the necessary questions, which must be answered satisfactorily by the authorities. Any person may participate in the accountability of the entities, although the latter must ensure that the persons most interested and affected by their management are specially called. Although there are various regulations on accountability in Colombia, it can be shown that it has been legally established since 1998. Most public entities in Colombia hold public accountability hearings in compliance with the law. However, in many cases it has become a passive information presentation exercise, in which it is still necessary to improve interaction and responses to citizenship.

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
embedded in the constitution/legislation 
Frequency
regular
Mode of selection of participants
open 
Type of participants
citizens civil society private stakeholders  
Decisiveness
democratic innovation yields no decision  
Co-Governance
yes 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

Sources

How to quote

Do you want to use the data from this website? Here’s how to cite:

Pogrebinschi, Thamy. (2017). LATINNO Dataset. Berlin: WZB.

Would you like to contribute to our database?

Send us a case