IRM Report

In 2023, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the Action Plan Review for Bulgaria'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…

This product consists of an IRM review of Armenia’s 2022-2024 action plan. The action plan comprises 10 commitments. This review emphasizes its analysis on the strength of the action plan to contribute to implementation and results. For the commitment-by-commitment data,…

Serbia’s fourth Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan focused on digitalization and public participation in decision-making. Half of the commitments were either fully or substantially completed, but only one (simplifying administrative procedures) saw major results in opening government. To improve…

The Netherlands’ fourth Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan saw advancements in transparency of political parties' financing. Preliminary work was also carried out in open contracting and in finding the right balance between government transparency and confidentiality. Going forward, it…

Estonia’s fifth Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan saw strong results in lobbying transparency, and in participation in central and local government. The commitments with the strongest results had both active leaders among public officials and committed partners or networks…

Only one of the four commitments from Sweden’s action plan saw early results from publishing open datasets. There was very limited engagement between government and civil society to oversee development and progress of the action plan. Greater political leadership in…

Government agencies’ limited funding and commitment resulted in a low level of implementation and few early open government results from Liberia’s fourth action plan. However, modest progress was made toward establishing systems to disclose public contract and beneficial ownership information.…

The drafting of Azerbaijan’s 2020–2022 Action Plan started in 2019 with the development of the roadmap. The process included a number of meetings and consultations with the wider civil society outside of the OGP National Platform. The civil society formed…