Open Government Partnership and Action Planning: Approach, Challenges and Practice
Open Government Partnership and Action Planning: Approach, Challenges and Practice

Author(s): Not Specified Author
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance, Government/Political systems, Economic development
Published by: Analitika – Centar za društvena istraživanja, sva prava pridržana
Keywords: BiH; development; action plans; open government partnership; civil society;
Summary/Abstract: On September 24, at the United Nations Headquarters, the Open Government Partnership formally welcomed Bosnia and Herzegovina as the 65th country to join the OGP. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an international voluntary initiative established on the principles of transparency, accountability and public participation. Launched in 2011 with the aim to provide an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens, the OGP has grown from eight countries to the 65 participating countries today. In all of these countries, government and civil society are working together to develop and implement ambitious open government reforms. Today there are more than 2000 initiatives implemented by different countries under the OGP, with the purpose of making governments more accountable and open. Different countries joined the initiative at different times, so some of them are now implementing their second Action Plan, some are implementing their first Action Plan and the most recent members, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, will be developing their first action plans. It is expected that Bosnia and Herzegovina will submit its first Action Plan to OGP by June 2015. The purpose of this Policy memo is to outline key elements of action planning and suggest possible avenues for approaching the action planning process in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the following period, as the country is about to start working on its first Action Plan.

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