Citizen Watch Center of the Anti-Corruption Participatory Initiative
The Citizen Watch Center of the Anti-Corruption Participatory Initiative was created after the initiative was launched by the Dominican government in 2010. The initiative aimed to create an open government strategy focused on strengthening anti-corruption efforts and transparency. It consisted of several meetings between representatives of civil society, government and industry, which produced 30 recommendations for reducing corruption and creating a more transparent government in their respective fields. Following the major events of the initiative, ten civil society organizations began to monitor the implementation of recommendations and action plans. This was called the Citizen Watch Center of the Anti-Corruption Participatory Initiative and guided by the Citizen Participation civil society organization. At the core of the monitoring action was the objective of representing citizen interests, which meant the clear and objective implementation of commitments. In addition, the Watch Center was designed to analyze the commitments and propose possible changes necessary to increase the representation of the interests of the citizens and the access and guarantee of the rights to transparent and accessible public information. The commitments of each round table were supervised by a civil society organization dedicated to the area.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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