Careful with our Money
Careful with our Money (lit. Ojo con nuestra Plata) is a project created by the Citizen Participation Corporation to encourage effective mechanisms of accountability and good practices of public funds management. The initiative promotes dialogue between citizens, authorities and public institutions, and their joint work in monitoring state funds, with the aim of improving the levels of fiscal transparency in the country. Careful with our Money, has three components for action. On the one hand, there is the agreement with a multiparty coalition of members of the national assembly with whom an agenda is set to promote the passing of bills concerning fiscal transparency. On the other hand, Careful with our Money has organized a ?Transparency Route? that includes the continuous training for 10 municipalities and 5 central government entities and the monitoring of their compliance with the Freedom of Information Law (LOTAIP). Finally, to encourage citizens to learn and partake in the process of planning and implementing the General State Budget, the initiative also organizes workshops and activities for the drafting of reforms that could serve to improve public accountability.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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