THE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION COMMITTEES´ PERFORMANCE TO STRENGTHEN ANTICORRUPTION POLICY

Abstract

The Citizen Participation Committees (CPC) are counterweight collegiate bodies to achieve and assess the National Anticorruption Policy (PNA) in Mexico. This paper aims to develop a qualitative research from a comparative perspective of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems, programs and results reports of the CPC by the State of Mexico, Chihuahua and federal level in order to analyze their performance. The results indicate these M&E systems do not work, neither include CPC performance indicators, members are discretionally elected, there is a risk of partisanship, conflict of interest, burdensome wages, limited results and few public interest warrants to point out corruption and to influence the PNA, and its institutionalization is an incentive distortion for citizen participation. Therefore, suggested actions are for legitimization, although institutional design, public value and lack of action as political decision are questioned.

Keywords: citizen committees, monitoring and evaluation, corruption, decentralization.