Estonia Action Plan Review 2022-2024 – For Public Comment

In 2023, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM)The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) is OGP’s accountability arm and the main means of tracking progress in participating countries. The IRM provides independent, evidence-based, and objective ... published the 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... Review for Estonia’s sixth action plan. The report provides a technical review of the action plan’s characteristics and the strengths and challenges the IRM identifies to inform a stronger implementation process.

In Estonia, the IRM’s findings are summarized below:

“Estonia’s sixth action plan is focused and ambitious. It continues the previous action plans’ efforts to increase transparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More and civic participation in policy-making, and introduces novel commitments around evidence-based policy-making. In both policy areas, the key challenges are stimulating sustainable cultural change in the public sector to reinforce the impact of new policy frameworks and tools.”

The report is available in English and in Estonian. The public comment period closed 8 March 2023.