Uruguay Mid-Term Report 2016-2018
- Action Plan: Uruguay Third National Action Plan 2016-2018
- Dates Under Review: July 2016 – June 2017
- Report Publication Year: 2018
- Researcher: Analía Bettoni and Anabel Cruz
This report was written in Spanish with an English Executive Summary. To see the original report, go to https://www.opengovpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Uruguay_Mid-term_IRM-Report_2016-2018.pdf
With broad participation from civil society, Uruguay made progress in the implementation of commitments. Moving forward, it is important to identify strategic lines that will allow for more ambitious commitments, as well as engaging additional government stakeholders.
Highlights
| Commitment | Overview | Well-Designed? * |
| ✪ 14. National Water Plan | After broad discussion and citizen participation, the National Water Plan was approved on July 31 2017. | Yes |
| ✪ 25. Right of access to public information | This commitment promotes access to information in different areas of public interest, including human rights violations during the dictatorship. | Yes |
| ✪ 36. Citizen monitoring in Montevideo | This initiative provides opportunities for citizen monitoring of air quality, food and spending on public works. | Yes |
| ✪ 39. Departmental open government Tacuarembo | Open Government Policy in Tacuarembo includes access to information and citizen participation activities led by and multidisciplinary committee. | Yes |
* Commitment is evaluated by the IRM as specific, relevant, and has a transformative potential impact
✪ Commitment is evaluated by the IRM as being specific, relevant, potentially transformative, and substantially or fully implemented
Process
The Grupo de Trabajo de Gobierno Abierto serves as permanent forum for co-creation and monitoring of the action plan. Consultations were conducted using online and offline tools and included broad participation from government and civil society.
| Did Not act contrary to OGP process
A country is considered to have acted contrary to process if one or more of the following occurs:
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Performance
During the first year of implementation, Uruguay made significant progress with more than half of its commitments substantially or completely implemented. More ambition and including commitments related to public accountability are key areas of opportunity.
IRM Recommendations
- Integrated action plan
- Private sector engagement
- Strengthen civil society oversight
- Integrated involvement of local governments
- Inclusion of commitments that involve the three branches
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