Ireland End-of-Term Report 2016-2018 – For Public Comment

In 2019, 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 end of term report for Ireland’s second 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.... The report covers the full action plan implementation period of July 2016 through June 2018.

In Ireland, the IRM researcher Raj Chari’s report’s findings are summarized below:

“At the end of Ireland’s second action plan cycle, a majority of its commitments were completed or achieved substantial progress. Moving forward, once the third action plan is developed, priority must be given to establish a permanent group to oversee the plan’s implementation, something expected since 2014, which has yet to come to fruition.”

The version of the report for public comment is available here. The two-week public comment period closed 22 January 2019.