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Participatory Budgeting (Porto Alegre)Residents directly decide how part of the municipal budget is spent via assemblies and delegate votes.Pilas con el VotoCitizen reporting (crowdsourcing) platform operated by the MOE that allows reporting electoral irregularities via pilasconelvoto.com and WhatsApp; reports are escalated to the authorities. In operation since 2011, it is activated in every electoral cycle. In the 2026 presidential elections the MOE used it with more than 2,600 observers (2,532 in the first round, 2,638 in the runoff).QueremosDatos.coPublic platform for freedom of information (FOIA) requests built on mySociety's free software Alaveteli and operated since 2016-2017 by Datasketch with mySociety and journalists from Bogotá. Any citizen can request information from the State; the team processes and publishes the response. Active in 2026, with ~2,876 requests to more than 6,400 public bodies, under the 2014 Transparency Law.MKSS jan sunwais and social audits (Rajasthan)The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan organizes jan sunwais (public hearings) in which official records of public works and welfare programs, obtained through the right to information, are read aloud and checked against the reality of the villages to expose corruption and wage theft. Started in Rajsamand in the early 1990s, it is the direct origin of the RTI movement and of the social audit now mandatory in MGNREGA.Uwajibikaji PamojaIntegrated complaints referral mechanism (Accountability Together) operated by Transparency International Kenya with more than 45 state and non-state service providers. It offers a single entry point to submit complaints or feedback about aid and public services through three channels: a toll-free SMS line (shortcode 22130), a web portal or paper forms. Piloted in 2014 in Turkana, West Pokot and Wajir (and Marsabit since 2017). It has accumulated more than 7,500 reports (7,518 at the time of verification).3de3 citizen initiativeAnti-corruption initiative from civil society, driven by Transparencia Mexicana and IMCO since 2014 after scandals such as the 'Casa Blanca'. It promotes that public servants, legislators and candidates make three declarations public: assets, interests and taxes, via 3de3.mx. In the 2015-2016 cycle, 366 candidates participated (69 winners). The Ley 3de3 collected 634,143 signatures (well above the ~120,000 required) and led to the anti-corruption legislative package approved on June 17, 2016, the basis of the Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción; the declarations went from voluntary to mandatory (in force since April 30, 2019).