Verifiability

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OGP commitments should be clear and specific enough to enable measurement of their progress. Verifiable commitments include specific activities that can be monitored. Following an action plan’s submission, OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) uses the “Verifiable” indicator to measure each commitment’s verifiability in the Action Plan Review.

Since 2021, the IRM has assessed commitments’ verifiabilityOGP commitments should be clear and specific enough to enable measurement of their progress. Verifiable commitments include specific activities that can be monitored. Following an action plan’s subm... using the following scoring criteria:

• Verifiable: Specific enough to review. As written in the 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 objectives stated and actions proposed are sufficiently clear and include objectively verifiable activities to assess implementation.
• Not verifiable: Not specific enough to review. As written in the action plan the objectives stated and proposed actions lack clarity and do not include explicit verifiable activities to assess implementation.

The IRM considers non-verifiable commitments to be “not reviewable” and does not assess these commitments further. In past years, commitments with either Medium or High “specificity” (an older indicator for assessing verifiability) were considered verifiable.