Featured Commitment – Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
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...: Records Management & Archives
National Action Plan: 2014-2016
Sierra Leone’s current archives law dates to its early independence and many of the national archives were destroyed during its decade-long civil war.
Without records, however, many administrative reforms, including the RTI law (and most other OGP commitments) and critical civil service reform, may be impossible to implement.
As part of their OGP 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..., Sierra Leone is updating the law. As of April 2016, the law had passed through the drafting phase and was about to tabled in Cabinet to be sent on to the Parliament.
According to IRM researcher Charlie Hughes, in order to complete the reform and ensure maximum impact, the final 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... will need to transfer jurisdiction over records management to the Ministry of Information and Communications which can better compel other agencies to meet basic requirements.