Jordan End-of-Term Report 2016-2018 – For Public Comment

In 2020, 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 End of Term Report for Jordan’s third 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... (2016-2018). The report covers the full action plan implementation period of July 2016 to June 2018.

In Jordan the IRM’s findings are summarized below:

“Jordan’s third action plan led to major advances in the decentralization of political power and the drafting of an ambitious 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... policy. While a majority of commitments in key policy areas were either completely, or substantially, implemented by the end of term, there remains opportunity for increased engagement of civil society in the design and implementation of more ambitious commitments.”

The version of the report for public comment is available below in English and Arabic. The two-week public comment period ended 28 September 2020.