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

In 2019, 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 the Netherlands’ second 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). This report summarizes the results of the second year of implementation from July 2017 through September 2018.

In the Netherlands, the IRM’s findings are summarized below:

“The second Netherlands action plan focused mainly on 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.... The strength of this action plan was its implementation, with overall substantial completionImplementers must follow through on their commitments for them to achieve impact. For each commitment, OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) evaluates the degree to which the activities outlin... More. Moving forward, the IRM recommends that the drive for implementation is met with more ambitionAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, OGP commitments should “stretch government practice beyond its current baseline with respect to key areas of open government.” Ambition captures the po... in the action plan design.”

And in Dutch:

“Het tweede Nederlandse actieplan bevat vooral actiepunten over open data. De kracht van dit actieplan zat in de uitvoering, met over het algemeen een substantiële mate van afronding. Voor de toekomst raadt IRM aan om in het ontwerp van het actieplan de uitvoering ambitieuzer aan te pakken.”

The version of the report for public comment is available in English and in Dutch below. The two-week public comment period closed 24 September 2019.