Announcing the Final Version of the Co-Creation Guidelines
We are excited to announce the new OGP ‘Participation and Co-creation StandardsCollaboration between government, civil society and other stakeholders is at the heart of the OGP process. The Participation and Co-Creation Standards are intended to support this collaboration throug... and Guidelines,’ that will be used from now on by all OGP participating countries to guide the development, implementation and (self-)assessment of National Action Plans.
In a September 2016 meeting, the full steering committeeThe Steering Committee is OGP’s executive decision-making body. Its role is to develop, promote and safeguard OGP’s values, principles and interests; establish OGP’s core ideas, policies, and ru... “agreed the need for OGP to update guidance on this and that the guidelines should be published for public consultation in October.” Since then, the Guidelines were presented for public comment to a wide array of actors through various means that included a website to make comments and regional calls with government point of contacts and civil society members from our participating countries. The document was also reviewed by the IRM International Experts Panel to make sure that the standards are measurable and can be assessed in the IRM reports. The Criteria and Standards subcommittee did a final review and approved the final version.
The idea behind the revision is threefold: a) make OGP requirements more specific and easy to follow; b) introduce a stronger focus on the quality of engagement; and c) provide guidance on the ongoing dialogue between government and civil society in all phases of the OGP cycle.
The Support UnitThe OGP Support Unit is a small, permanent group of staff that work closely with the Steering Committee and the Independent Reporting Mechanism to advance the goals of the Open Government Partnership.... has begun designing and translating the guidelines into Spanish and French, and developing materials to train civil society and government officials in the new standards. We will host a series of webinars in the following weeks, and will reach out to stakeholders in the 30 countries that will be developing an Action PlanAction plans are at the core of a government’s participation in OGP. They are the product of a co-creation process in which government and civil society jointly develop commitments to open governmen... in 2017.
This is the an important first step of the Rules of the Game trajectory that we will embark on this year – and for the ambitions laid out in the strategic refresh. We look forward to working with the OGP community as whole to implement these new guidelines.