Citizen Comptroller of Health Services in Cuscatacingo (Report Card)
The Citizen Comptrollership of Health Services in Cuscatacingo was a project that sought to evaluate the provision of health services in the primary care hospital of this urban area in San Salvador. Its objective was to diagnose the deficiencies in the provision of health services, such as the lack of medical supplies, limited medical coverage and the generally poor quality of services. The evaluation from the same citizens of the provision of health services was encouraged; they disseminated the results and advocated for improvements in access to health.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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