Component 2 – OPEN GOVERNANCE
Responsible General Secretariat of the Government
OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
For more than a decade, the OECD has been at the forefront of evidence-based analysis and policy advice on open government, strategies and initiatives in member and partner countries. In December 2016, at the 2016 OECD Global Forum on Open Government held in the context of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit, the OECD launched the Report Open Government: The Global Context and the Way Forward. The report is based on responses from more than 50 countries to the 2015 OECD Survey on Open Government Coordination and Citizen Participation in the Policy Cycle, the first of its kind to highlight Open Government governance worldwide, as well as findings from numerous Open Government assessments of OECD.
Council Recommendation on Open Government
Building on this experience and responding to the call from OECD countries for a comprehensive, clear, actionable and internationally recognized standard on what open government strategies and initiatives entail and, more specifically, what the characteristics of open government should be to maximize their impact on citizens’ lives, the OECD developed the Council Recommendation on Open Government.
OECD Open Government Assessment
In order to compare its policies and practices against the provisions and associated indicators of the most comprehensive and ambitious legal instrument that exists in the field of open government, Romania will benefit from an OECD Open Government Assessment, which aims to provide the country an evidence-based governance analysis of its open government strategies and initiatives based on the 10 provisions of the OECD Recommendation and its related indicators.
National Open Government Strategies
Therefore, the evaluation will support Romania in achieving its strategic priorities of taking stock of several years of implementation of open government reforms, including but not limited to OGP action plans, and identify best practices as well as lessons learned in order to reproduce and disseminate them. horizontally in line ministries and public institutions and vertically between levels of government. Also, the review will support Romania in developing a new national open government strategy, aligned with the principles of the Recommendation.
