Armenia Progress Report 2016-2018 – For Public Comment

In 2018, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM)The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) is OGP’s accountability arm and the main means of tracking progress in participating countries. The IRM provides independent, evidence-based, and objective ... published the Year 1 progress report for Armenia’s third action plan. The report covers the first year of action plan implementation: August 2016 through September 2017.

In Armenia, the findings from the IRM researcher,  Tatevik Margaryan, are summarized below:

“Armenia’s third action plan includes several open dataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici... initiatives aimed to improve transparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More of government spending and service provision. However, commitments are too limited in scope to lead to significant changes. Moving forward, the government needs to consider working with a wide range of CSOs and the Parliament to develop more ambitious commitments that lead to sustainable reforms in public budgeting, government contracts and company ownership.”