Accion Ciudadana will help political parties to develop strategic anti-corruption actions, and has invited parties to sign public commitments with civil society to ensure that their anti-corruption promises became concrete actions instead of only political discourses. To-date, two of the registered 16 political parties have done so.

In conjunction with this, the chapter has launched an electronic platform (www.informateyvota.com), where information from the political parties will be published to increase citizen access to this information and to hold political parties to their commitments. Also available on the new website, are qualitative indicators that help assess the institutional performance of political parties, including compliance with national rules and regulations for accountability in political finance and the information flow between parties and civil society.

As a result of the CRINIS project, Accion Ciudadana has developed indicators to measure the extent parties comply with the new law on Parties and Elections (from 2004) and the regulations issued by the electoral power for the upcoming elections. Three reports will be issued during the electoral campaign, allowing for parties to compete for transparency and improve their performance. In the first report, 10 of 16 political parties have inefficiently accomplished the law on transparency in finances referred to electoral campaigns.