Bosnia and Herzegovina Action Plan Review 2022-2024 – For Public Comment

In 2022, 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 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... Review for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s second action plan. The report provides a technical review of the action plan’s characteristics and the strengths and challenges the IRM identifies to inform a stronger implementation process.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the IRM’s findings are summarized below:

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s second action plan contains three promising commitments on developing an 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... portal, publishing public procurementTransparency in the procurement process can help combat corruption and waste that plagues a significant portion of public procurement budgets globally. Technical specifications: Commitments that aim t... More data, and enhancing the 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 funding for media and civil society. However, political crises adversely affected adoption of the action plan. Ongoing engagement of the multistakeholder forum despite such crises would encourage implementation and ensure oversight in collaboration with civil society.

The report is available in English and Bosnian. The public comment period ended 17 September 2023.