Code of Conduct for Non-Profit Associations
The Code of Conduct for Non-Profit Associations contains recommendations on how to structure civil society organizations and what principles they should follow to be considered as such. The code was created by representatives of civil society, who reviewed legislation and initiatives in different countries on this subject, and hope that the document will serve as a guideline for legislation in their country. The code was ratified by numerous civil society organizations in the Dominican Republic and, in addition to this, its creators launched a self-assessment guide, through which NGOs can monitor the extent to which they comply with the principles established in the code.
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
- unknown
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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