Action plan – Quintana Roo, Mexico, 2023 – 2025

At-a-Glance

Duration

Sep 2027

Date Submitted

7th July 2023

Foreword(s)

In Quintana Roo, Open Government has strategically added to democratic openness and participatory governance to create a more transparent government, open to citizen participationAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, citizen participation occurs when “governments seek to mobilize citizens to engage in public debate, provide input, and make contributions that lead to m... More and accountable to citizens.

The Citizen Gloss is an exercise in dialogue and accountability that has transcended administrations and has innovated in the form of interaction between the government and organized civil society, which is focused on the co-creation and execution mechanism of the Second Action Plan 2023-2025.

The integration of Quintana Roo as a member of the OGP Local Program and the generation of the First Plan 2021-2022 has been the result of the evolution of the citizen agenda to imagine a Quintana Roo with sustainable development in which we want to live in the next 25 years, and that in this Second Plan, it is consolidated.

Civil society organizations, universities, business chambers, and the public sector represented by its Executive and Legislative Powers, have sustained dialogue and co-creation in work groups for 6 years.

The agenda that we present below is complex and ambitious, since after the reform to the State Planning Law, achieved in the First Plan, an encouraging and hopeful panorama was opened for a participatory planning process that includes the voice of all and all, and that will be reflected in the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development of Quintana Roo 2050. In addition, we incorporated three other commitments in which the driving group has promoted the agenda of budget transparency, environmental governance, and land use planning.

Open Government Challenges, Opportunities and Strategic Vision

This subsection details the Open Government Strategic Vision in your local area that should guide the commitments for the action plan period.

What is the long-term vision for open government in your context and jurisdiction?

The local government, civil society, academia, and the private sectorGovernments are working to open private sector practices as well — including through beneficial ownership transparency, open contracting, and regulating environmental standards. Technical specificat... More are committed to citizenizing the government to make it efficient and at the service of the citizenry, co-creating public policies and ensuring that public resources are transparent and well used to solve citizen problems.

From the Reform to the Planning Law, from the civil society, we have identified that the challenge is to integrate an Open State in Quintana Roo, with a focus on human rightsAn essential part of open government includes protecting the sacred freedoms and rights of all citizens, including the most vulnerable groups, and holding those who violate human rights accountable. T..., a genderOGP participating governments are bringing gender perspectives to popular policy areas, ensuring diversity in participatory processes, and specifically targeting gender gaps in policies to address gov... More perspective, anti-corruption, and with citizen participation for a unified vision towards 2050.

Open Government has an agenda that evolves organically under the protection and sustainability of civil society, using the Citizen Glossa as a mechanism, an exercise that has transcended administrations, integrating not only commitments with the Executive Power but also generating synergy for the Open ParliamentEnsuring access to legislative information and creating mechanisms for public participation are critical to building an open, trusting relationship with citizens. Technical specifications: Commitments... More in structural reforms, and underpins towards Open JusticeAn open, independent, and impartial justice system serves as a foundation for better access to justice by fulfilling all people’s civil liberties and allowing individuals to more effectively protect... to address priority issues such as attention to the climate crisis, put environmental governance at the center with local and federal actors.

What are the achievements in open government to date (for example, recent open government reforms)?

The Political Constitution of Quintana Roo in 2020 reforms its Art. 49 where it integrates the concept of an Open State conformed by the Open Parlament Open Government and Open JusticeTo address barriers that prevent citizens from having their justice needs met, OGP participating governments are working to expand transparency, accountability, and inclusion into all systems of justi... and principles of transparency access to information accountability citizen participation and innovation.

The State Transparency Law in 2020 reforms Art. 82 and integrates the concept of Open Government into the regulatory framework of transparency

The Open Government Driving Group has promoted the following Open Government exercises:

• Observatory of Commitments and Public Policies of Quintana Roo 2016-2022.
• Open Government and Sustainable Development Citizen Glosa 6 editions 2018-2022, and with a transition Glosa.
• Regidor 16 (R16) Collective in the municipality of Benito Juarez.
• Declaration of Open Parlament in the XVI Legislature of the State Congress.
• Integration to OGP
• Outstanding results of the co-creation work linked to the 1st Action Plan such as:
• Budget Transparency Platform
• Updating of the Regulations of the Promotion Law
• Creation of the CSO Strengthening Council
• Creation and 3-year operation of the Co-investment Fund for CSOs
• YouthRecognizing that investing in youth means investing in a better future, OGP participating governments are creating meaningful opportunities for youth to participate in government processes. Technical ... More Citizen Participation:
  • Manual cool citizen
  • Citizen Participation Protocol Social Development Case
  • Citizen Reform to the Planning Law for the Development of Quintana Roo, which structurally transforms the Democratic
  • Planning System of the State

What are the current challenges/areas for improvement in open government that the jurisdiction wishes to tackle?

Among the main areas of opportunity for Open Government in Quintana Roo are:

1. Participatory democracy: Inclusive and local citizen participation.
2. Fiscal Openness: Innovatively activate the system to prevent, detect and punish corruption risks in the budget cycle.
3. Urgent attention to the climate crisis.

In addition to these issues, it includes the natural inertia of the change of government and calling on the new government to sign the second Action Plan with OGP to trigger the follow-up of the citizen agenda.

What are the medium-term open government goals that the government wants to achieve?

• Quintana Roo 2050 Strategic Planning: Co-create participatory strategic planning of Quintana Roo as a living document emanating from the citizenship, which outlines sustainable development routes that respond to the aspirations of the Quintana Roo people.
• Transparency Platform with emphasis on fiscal openness: The platform arises from the citizen need to be transparent and know how they are being used to solve citizen problems. Therefore, citizens must appropriate this instrument to co-create in the planning and programming of social programs to evaluate the budget plan based on results.
• Anti-corruption and Environment: Address environmental alerts for corruption in Quintana Roo, through a co-creation table on anti-corruption and the environment, in which government actors and civil society; dialogue, generate agreements, execute actions, and render accounts on anti-corruption and environmental issues; aimed at sustainable development of the state through citizen participation.
• Anti-corruption in the Public Registry: Modernize the public registry of the state to improve territorial ordering, and legal certainty and increase the quality efficiency, and effectiveness of government services through information systems and technology with criteria of simplification, access, and anti-corruption.

How does this action plan contribute to achieve the Open Government Strategic Vision?

The Action Plan contributes to our strategic vision to sustain good open government practices in our state and that we never return to the hijacking of the public agenda and participatory inaction, the evolution of the agenda towards an Open State including the three powers of the State. It is a clear route where active citizens have taken over public spaces through open government to co-create decisions that involve all of us, pay for compliance with the commitments of the Citizen Gloss of Open Government and Sustainable Development, strengthen the open government agenda for the transition and change of government, to sustain it. It also empowers civil society organizations at the local level through the international accompaniment of OGP and with other allies and national promoters of the citizen agenda, such as the Nucleus of Civil Society Organizations (NOSC), Transparencia Mexicana, World Justice Project, USAID, and UNDP Mexico. Likewise, it generates the bases of administrations closest to the citizenry with accountability exercises and innovative actions in their public policies.

How does the open government strategic vision contribute to the accomplishment of the current administration’s overall policy goals?

The Strategic Vision of Open Government is supported by the public administration in the first instance by the State Development Plan as well as the “New Agreement for the Well-being and Development of Quintana Roo”

In Quintana Roo, the Comptroller’s Secretariat and the Interior Secretariat are the agencies in charge of executing Axis 5: “Honest, Austere and Close Government to the People” of the State Development Plan 2023-2027, which includes strategies and programs aligned to governance, transparency, the fight against corruption, as well as Strategic Planning and Evaluation.

Mara Lezama Espinosa, governor of the state promotes the so-called “New Agreement for the Well-being and Development of Quintana Roo” which, among other things, seeks to jointly implement training and management actions, as an instrument of an integral, gradual, and continuous nature, which promote in governments and municipal administrations, a set of ordered changes, seeks to strengthen open government mechanisms. A new social contract that allows us as a society to move together towards a new joint and supportive work model that allows us to reach an agreement and include the vision of all sectors.

Engagement and Coordination in the Open Government Strategic Vision and OGP Action Plan

Please list the lead institutions responsible for the implementation of this OGP action plan.

• Secretary of the State Comptroller (Secretaría de la Contraloría del Estado (SECOES))
• Ministry of the Interior (Secretaría de Gobernación (SEGOB))
• Ministry of Finance and Planning (Secretaría de Finanzas y Planeación (SEFIPLAN))
• Secretariat of Ecology and Environment (Secretaría de Ecología y Medio Ambiente (SEMA))
• Secretariat of Sustainable Urban Territorial Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Territorial Urban
• Legal Advice. (Consejería Jurídica.)
• Drinking Water and sewage commission (Comisión de agua potable y alcantarillado)
• Public registry of property and commerce (Registro público de la propiedad y del comercio)
• New Agreement for the Well-being and Development of Quintana Roo (Nuevo Acuerdo para el Bienestar y Desarrollo de Quintana Roo)
• Citizens for Transparency A.C. (Ciudadanos por la Transparencia A.C.)
• Citizen Council of the Strategic Planning Committee for Sustainable Development of the state of Quin
• Collective U morsel kuxtal (Colectivo U morsel kuxtal)
• BIOS: Political Participation and AC Development (BIOS: Participación Política y Desarrollo AC)
• Collective for Social Impact A.C. (Colectivo para el Impacto Social A.C.)
• Collective intelligence (Inteligencia Colectiva)
• Employers Confederation of the Mexican Republic (COPARMEX) (Confederación Patronal de la República M
• Caribbean Business Coordinating Council A.C. (Consejo Coordinador Empresarial del Caribe A.C.)
• National Chamber of the Housing Development and Promotion Industry, Quintana Roo Delegation (Cámara
• Mexican Transparency A.C. (Transparencia Mexicana A.C.)
• UNAM- Guanajuato
• Mexican Center for Environmental Law CEMDA (Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental CEMDA)
• Sentinels of the Water (Centinelas del Agua)
• (CIMAC) Conservation, Research, and Environmental Management of Cozumel (Conservación, Investigación

What kind of institutional arrangements are in place to coordinate between government agencies and departments to implement the OGP action plan?

• Signature of commitments signed by the governor, during the 2021 campaign process.
• 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... letter from the State Executive signed in March 2023 to promote the 2023-2025 Action Plan.
• Quintana Roo Development Plan 2023-2027 Axis 5: “Honest, Austere, and Close Government to the People” of the State Development Plan.
• New Agreement for the Well-being and Development of Quintana Roo.
• Transition Gloss held in August 2022.
• Co-created commitments in the 6th Citizen Glossa of Open Government and Sustainable Development.
• Evidence and minutes of the working groups of the driving group of the Action Plan.

What kind of spaces have you used or created to enable the collaboration between government and civil society in the co-creation and implementation of this action plan? Mention both offline and online spaces.

• Fifth Transition Citizen Glossa was held in August 2022, held with former Governor Carlos Joaquín González and current Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa.
• Sixth Citizen Glossa on Open Government and Sustainable Development with Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa and civil society.
• Meetings of the main group and direct dialogue with representatives of civil society.
• Meetings between the Ministry of Finance and Planning (SEFIPLAN) and Citizens for Transparency (CxT).
• Meeting with representatives of the State Government-CEPAL – ILPES and CxT.
• Linkage sessions with State Civil Organizations.
• Consultation Forums New Agreement for Well-being.

What measures did you take to ensure diversity of representation (including vulnerable or marginalized populations) in these spaces?

Civil Society Organizations permanently mainstream the human rights, gender, and intercultural perspective schedule.

Who participated in these spaces?

Civil society

• Social and political organizations
• Business chambers
• Environmental organizations
• Hotel associations
• Public and private universities.
• Collectives of Indigenous communities
• Citizen Council of the Strategic Planning Committee for Sustainable Development of the state of Quintana Roo.

Gobierno:

• Secretary of the State Comptroller (SECOES)
• Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB)
• Ministry of Finance and Planning (SEFIPLAN)
• Ministry of Ecology and Environment (SEMA)
• Secretariat for Sustainable Urban Territorial Development (SEDETUS)
• Legal Department.

How many groups participated in these spaces?

31

How many public-facing meetings were held in the co-creation processCollaboration between government, civil society and other stakeholders (e.g., citizens, academics, private sector) is at the heart of the OGP process. Participating governments must ensure that a dive...?

50

How will government and non-governmental stakeholders continue to collaborate through the implementation of the action plan?

The Citizen Gloss is the accountability mechanism of the OGP Action Plan that is held annually in December to analyze the commitments. It establishes a working group that specifically carried out the commitment plan; which in turn generates quarterly public reports on progress.

Each commitment has working groups made up of civil society and government, academia, and the private sector and is governed by co-creation standards and defined routes.

Additionally, in this plan, we are co-creating a Platform where progress, milestones, and news related to Open Government in Quintana Roo are publicly reported.

Please describe the independent Monitoring Body you have identified for this plan.

The monitoring entity will be made up of autonomous bodies of transparency and civil society.

Provide the contact details for the independent monitoring body.

• Magda Lozano, Commissioner President Institute of Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data of Quintan, mlozano@idaipqroo.org.mx
• Juan Carlos Chávez Castañeda, IDAIPQROO, chavez@idaipqroo.org.mx
• Ninive Aguilar Poot, IDAIPQROO State Department Head, naguilar@idaipqroo.org

What types of activities will you have in place to discuss progress on commitments with stakeholders?

1. Report on progress in the following Citizen Glossa.
2. Working groups and dialogue
3. Preparation of minutes of meetings.
4. Local surveys and with the motor group.
5. Discussion and reflection forums.

How will you regularly check in on progress with implementing agencies?

The members of the main group will deliver to the monitoring entity quarterly the evidence of actions developed and in a group meeting progress, areas of opportunity detected as well as the next steps will be presented.

After the commitments, a bulletin of recommendations and learning areas will be generated with the members of the main group.

To finalize the action plan, there will be a panel of experiences “Quintana Roo, open government” that will lead to the co-creation of the next Action Plan.

How will you share the results of your monitoring efforts with the public?

In this Action Plan, we are co-creating a Platform that is a space where progress is publicly shared and allows monitoring of the course of the Open Government of the state of Quintana Roo.

The platform will contain:

1. Publication of the reports and Status of the commitments.
2. Progress Notes on Commitment Milestones

It will also be implemented:

• A communication campaign on social networks for all members of the main group to share the main achievements and recommendations with the public.
• Press conferences, at the end of the plan, or in some citizen activation activity regarding open government.

Endorsement from Non-Governmental Stakeholders

• Cynthia Dehesa Guzmán, CEO, Citizens for Transparency A.C.
• Yeddelti Cupul Alonzo, Citizen Activation Coordinator, Citizens for Transparency A.C.
• Ricardo Medina Chemor, President, Citizens for Transparency A.C.
• Alicia Mateos, Director, Private Initiative
• Manuel Polo Sánchez, Executive Director, Bios: Political Participation and Development A.C.
• Alfredo Méndez Rocha, Project director, Bios: Political Participation and Development A.C.
• Eduardo Martínez, President, Caribbean Coordinating Council
• Angélica Frías, President, Employers
• Juan Ignacio Athié, President, Citizen Council of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Sustainable Development of the State of
• Didier Tuz, Member, U Mootsel Kuxtal Collective

Q.Roo Letter of Continuity

Budget Transparency Quintana Roo
New Agreement for Well-being and Development
Transparency
Open Data
Open Commissions
Complaints and anti-corruption