End of Commitment Report – Adopting the interna audit system to ensure transparency of conduct and management

Name of Evaluator

Ridha Raouani

Email

raouani.ridha@gmail.com

Member Name

El Kef, Tunisie

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... Title

Action plan – El Kef, Tunisia, 2021 – 2023

CommitmentOGP commitments are promises for reform co-created by governments and civil society and submitted as part of an action plan. Commitments typically include a description of the problem, concrete action...

Adopting the internal audit system to ensure 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 of conduct and management

Action

The municipality seeks to create an internal audit and control system to ensure transparency of conduct and management in implementing the provisions of the organic law 2018-29 dated May 9, 2018, relating to the local authority code especially article 34. It also seeks to put all available data and information at the disposal of public authorities, researchers, and the general public, taking into account the legislationCreating and passing legislation is one of the most effective ways of ensuring open government reforms have long-lasting effects on government practices. Technical specifications: Act of creating or r... of public authorities legislation related to personal data, with the support of the National Statistics Institute in establishing an accurate local statistical database.

Problem

A number of citizens, those interested in municipal affairs, and researchers complained about the absence of monitoring and internal audit mechanisms in the conduct and management of the El Kef municipal institution.

1.1 What was the overall level of progress in the commitment implementation at the time of this assessment?

Limited

Provide a brief explanation of your answer:

To implement this commitment it was necessary to carry out 3 major steps:

• create an internal audit commission
• create a typical audit manual
• work calendar

The commune of E lKef is late in carrying out the first two steps on sight. The end of the period of achievement of the OGP N°1 plan has come to an end, however, most importantly, the commission and the manual have been completed-

1.2 Describe the main external or internal factors that impacted implementation of this commitment and how they were addressed (or not).

Although the commitment has not been finalized, the partners (mainly NDI) have seen we can produce a standard document i.e. the internal audit manual, and several municipalities have requested a copy of this document.

1.3 Was the commitment implemented as originally planned?

Most of the commitment milestones were implemented as planned.

Provide a brief explanation of your answer:

All the steps necessary to implement this commitment have been carried out, but the internal audit commission is beginning its work with a detailed plan to produce its first report in force.

2.1.1. – Did the government disclose more information; improve the quality of the information (new or existing); improve the value of the information; improve the channels to disclose or request information or improve accessibility to information?

No

Degree of result:

Marginal

Explanation: In narrative form, what has been the impact on people or practice.

So many objectives must be achieved in the implementation of this commitment to disclose more information, improve the quality, and value of the information, and the channels to request accessibility to this information the choice of milestone and the pillar principles of the OGP.

2.1.2. – Did the government create new opportunities to seek feedback from citizens/enable participation inform or influence decisions; improve existing channels or spaces to seek feedback from citizens/enable participation/ inform or influence decisions; create or improve capabilities in the government or the public aimed to improve how the government seeks feedback from citizens/enables participation/ or allows for the public to inform or influence decisions?

No

Degree of result:

Marginal

Explanation: In narrative form, what has been the impact on people or practice.

The publication and implementation of an internal audit report which will be a first not only for the municipality of Kef but also on a larger scale will make available to the general public data and results of financial management of the accounting year with recommendations and overruns, anomalies and problems.

2.1.3 Did the government create or improve channels, opportunities or capabilities to hold officials answerable to their actions?

No

Degree of result:

Marginal

Explanation: In narrative form, what has been the impact on people or practice.

Even without implementation and realization of the commitment to produce an audit document the commission concerned are two stages accumulating in the experience and the nature of administrative work, in general, the behavior towards the documents and their processing, responsibility, disclosing information, and opening it to the general public.

2.1.4 Other Results

Yes

Degree of result:

Marginal

Explanation: In narrative form, what has been the impact on people or practice.

Responsibility and recognize that all actions carried out by municipal agents will be subject to control as well as preserve public property and give the administration’s acts the required legality.

2.2 Did the commitment address the public policy problem that it intended to address as described in the action plan?

Yes

Provide a brief explanation of your answer:

The biggest battle that leaders must fight is corruption and without control which gives clear or reliable deals, moreover discloses, and displays the results in specific reports will await the realization of the principle of transparency also.

3. Provide at least one lesson or reflection relating to the implementation of this commitment. It can be the identification of key barriers to implementation, an unexpected help/hindrance, recommendations for future commitments, or if the commitment should be taken forward to the next action plan.

The choice of commitments validated by those in charge gives a great opportunity for radical change at times due to the 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... principle, with open, responsible, transparent, digitizing, smart information processing.