The fourth correspondence session of the Council for Coordination and Monitoring of the Open Government Partnership Process and the National Action Plan for OGP 2018-2020 was held on 29 July.
The fourth session was attended by Maja Petkovska Lesеs – Cabinet of the Minister without portfolio in charge of Communications, Accountability and Transparency; German Filkov – Center for Civil Communications; Maja Konevska – State Commission for Prevention of Corruption; Misha Popovic – Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis”; Goran Mojanoski – Ministry of Finance; Darko Antic – Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women; Nadica Josifovski – Ministry of Information Society and Administration; Martin Todevski – Center for Change Management; Eli Chakar – Ministry of Local Self-Government; Blagica Dimitrovska – Association for promotion and development of inclusive society “Incluziva”; Dusan Tomsic – Ministry of Labor and Social Policy; Ivona Stalevska – Foundation Open Society – Macedonia; Teodora Obradovikj Grncharovska – Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning and Natasa Markovska – Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of North Macedonia.
MISA provided expert-administrative support for the preparation, organization and implementation of the session.
In the eve of the start of the process of co-creation of the fifth action plan for Open Government Partnership 2021-2023, the Council at this session adopted the following documents: Procedure for conducting consultations with stakeholders to create new priorities and commitments within the process “Open Government Partnership ”with a time frame, Public Call for participation in the process of co-creation of the Action Plan for Open Government Partnership 2021-2023 with an Application Form and Guidelines for implementation of a questionnaire for evaluation of the implementation of the measures of the National Action Plan for Open Government Partnership 2018-2020 and the need for their inclusion in the new action plan.
At this session, the Council, from among its members, established a Working Group for preparation of materials arising from the Procedure for conducting consultations with stakeholders to create new priorities and commitments within the process “Open Government Partnership”: Plan for promoting the public call, Educational material and Criteria for assessing the relevance and connection with the principles of OGP, consisting of Maja Petkovska Leses, German Filkov, Misha Popovic, Darko Antic, Nadica Josifovski, Martin Todevski, Eli Cakar, Blagica Dimitrovska and Ivona Stalevska.
This approach is expected to provide a systematic way of planning and conducting the consultation process, which will ensure a timely, smooth, inclusive and transparent process of co-creation of the new Open Government Partnership Action Plan and the National Open Government Partnership Action Plan 2021-2023.
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29 July 2020