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Learning Alliance on Citizen Oversight
Module 1: Strengthening the Legal Frameworks to Ensure Transparency and Access to
Information
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Module’s Goal
This module allows participants to identify good practices on access to information and transparency in Latin America, their challenges and opportunities, and the extent to which these can be replicated in their own countries.
Each Friday, new materials will be presented to the participants, who will be invited to:
Methodology
Comments and contributions might be asked to specific participants with expertise on the topics discussed.
Raise their doubts on the contents of the
materialsDebate on key issues
Think on similarities, differences and feasibility of the
experiences in their particular countries
Methodology
A variety of materials will be offered to the participants:
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Written articles
• Expert interviews
• ELLA Knowledge Products
Module’s Structure
Week 1•Introduction
Weeks 2 to 7•Learning
and Exchange
Week 8•Conclusion
This module will last two months and will be structured as follows:
Introductory Week
The module’s first week will be dedicated to the introduction of the module, where participants will learn more about transparency and the right to access information in Latin America.
Learning and Exchange WeeksWeeks 2 to 7 will be dedicated to extensive learning and exchange regarding the strengthening of the legal frameworks on transparency and access to information.
The experiences presented will focus on:• The Latin American regional and national
legal frameworks• Enabling contextual elements• Practical use of these legal frameworks by
civil society
Learning and Exchange WeeksWeek 3
Legal frameworks at the national level:
The process of approval
Week 2The role of the Inter-
American Human Rights System in the
promotion of the right to information
Week 4Legal frameworks at the national level:
The creation of institutions in charge of monitoring law’s
compliance
Learning and Exchange Weeks
Week 5Legal frameworks at the national level: The challenges and opportunities facing
the law
Week 6The practical use of the legal frameworks
by civil society
Week 7 Strategic litigation and
court decision as a mean to enforce the
right to information in absence of a specific
legal framework
Conclusion Week
Main conclusions of the Learning Alliance’s first module will be drawn on the last week.
Participants will be asked to fill a survey allowing the moderator to verify whether the learning and exchange met the objectives of the module.
We look forward to your participation and contribution to
this first module!
African and Asian coordinators:
Managed by:
Latin American Regional Centre of Expertise
Supported by: With the participation of:
Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nepal
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