Foster citizen involvement in monitoring public policy outcomes (FR0089)

What is the public problem that the commitment will address? Because citizens want to know how government action affects their day-to-day life in their local community, the Public Policy Outcomes Barometer aims to inform them of the government’s actual progress on priority reforms across all départements. The barometer was published on 13 January 2021. Updated on a quarterly basis, it reported on 45 reforms in July 2021. https://www.gouvernement.fr/les-actions-dugouvernement (in French) The Public Policy Outcomes Barometer, a new tool for ensuring the transparency of public policy, can get even more citizens and users involved.

What is the commitment? Foster citizen involvement in ensuring the transparency and monitoring of public policy outcomes.

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem? The commitment involves the four tangible initiatives detailed below. 1. Citizens will co-create the barometer: - Experiment with incorporating one or more indicators from a citizen dialogue process to monitor priority reforms alongside a willing government. - Regularly hold citizen meetings so that those who benefit from government policies can take part in evaluating priority reforms. Coordination of these meetings may be informed by feedback and contributions from user groups facilitated in the context of the Services Publics + programme. 2. Transparency of barometer outcomes will be improved: If an objective is not met, users are transparently informed why. 3. Citizens will be able to directly reach out to a point of contact: Regarding requests to access data or questions on published open data, the website will make it easy for users to get in touch with a point of contact. This same service will be made available to answer citizens’ questions about an outcome and allow them to share their opinion or personal experience. It can be developed by using the Voxusagers website. 4. A digital commons will be developed: The developed tool – conceived and designed as a digital commons – will be reusable and open source, thus rounding out the commitment’s collective and shared aspect. Everything from code to data will be fully transparent, while users and citizens will be able to be more involved in public policy.

Why is this commitment relevant to OGP values? The Public Policy Outcomes Barometer provides better understanding, more clarity and more transparency where public policy is concerned, whether at the level of central government, local and regional authorities, etc. Quarterly monitoring of the implementation of the government’s priority work is carried out and made accessible through the barometer. This monitoring addresses citizens’ local-level concerns, as data is published for each département. Regarding its transparency, the barometer publishes the collected data as open data. If objectives are not met, the government informs citizens that an inquiry is underway and provides reasons for the delay. This commitment increases citizens’ trust in public policy by monitoring the progress of reforms in a quantifiable, easily understandable and accessible way

Action Plan Review

Commitment 39. Foster citizen involvement in monitoring public policy outcomes

● Verifiable: Yes

● Does it have an open government lens? Yes

● Potential for results: Unclear