Germany Action Plan Review 2023-2025 – For Public Comment

In 2024, 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 Germany’s fourth 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 Germany, the IRM’s findings are summarized below:

Germany’s fourth action plan features commitments on a range of topics, mainly in the fields of 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 open dataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici.... The most promising commitments come from the coalition agreement and include the introduction of a Federal Transparency Act and transparency guidelines for public-private partnerships (PPPs). Civil society mentioned that the co-creation processCollaboration between government, civil society and other stakeholders (e.g., citizens, academics, private sector) is at the heart of the OGP process. Participating governments must ensure that a dive... did not offer them sufficient opportunities to shape the content of the action plan. The IRM restates recommendations to institutionalize the OGP process for better co-creation of future action plans.

The report is available in English and in German. The public comment period closed 5 July 2024.