
Africa and the Middle East Regional Meeting
The 2022 OGP Africa and the Middle East Regional Meeting is taking place on November 1-3 in Marrakech, Morocco.
2020-2022
Action Plan 4
Kenya’s fourth action plan continues ambitious reforms from prior plans, including the adoption of open contracting data standards, implementation of the Access to Information Act, and the promotion of meaningful participation in legislative processes. It introduces new policy areas like improving access to justice. Commitments primarily focus on increasing transparency and civic participation. They could include stronger actions to enhance accountability through feedback and redress mechanisms. Moving forward, the Kenyan OGP Steering Committee should strengthen its oversight role, coordinating with implementing agencies to ensure that milestones have adequate resources, are met on time, and to their full extent.
Kenya plays a global leadership role as a member of the OGP Steering Committee, which has increased their drive to become a role model among OGP members. The introduction of their fourth action plan describes leadership objectives at local, national, regional, and global levels. This will allow Kenya to speak to open governance efforts at all levels of government, from subnational governments to their international peers. Moving forward, Kenya needs to address implementation gaps from past action plans by joining resources and actors to push for strong implementation of this plan. More
The 2022 OGP Africa and the Middle East Regional Meeting is taking place on November 1-3 in Marrakech, Morocco.
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Justice has become one of the most popular policy areas across the Partnership and the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has found many of these commitments to be highly impactful.
2023, Report Comments, Web page
2023, IRM Report, Web page
2023, Report Comments, Web page
2023, IRM Report, Web page
2023, Letter, Web page
2022, IRM Report, Web page
2022, Guidance Document, Web page
2021, Web page
2021, Report Comments, Web page
2021, Action Plan, Web page
2021, Action Plan, Web page
2021, Letter, Web page
2021, Letter, Web page
2021, Letter, Web page
2021, IRM Report, Web page
2021, Letter, Web page
2021, Action Plan, Web page
2020, Report Comments, Web page
2020, IRM Report, Web page
2020, Report Comments, Web page
2020, Letter, Web page
2019, Research Product, Web page
2019, Letter, Web page
2019, IRM Report, Web page
2018, Action Plan, Web page
2018, Action Plan, Web page
2018, IRM Report, Web page
2018, Report Comments, Web page
2018, Report Comments, Web page
2018, Letter, Web page
2017, Letter, Web page
2017, Research Product, Web page
2017, Letter, Web page
2016, Action Plan, Web page
2016, Action Plan, Web page
2016, Letter, Web page
2016, Letter, Web page
2015, Letter, Web page
2015, Case Study, Web page
2015, Research Product, Web page
2015, Action Plan, Web page
2015, IRM Report, Web page
2015, Web page
The following variables answer the question “Did this commitment open government?“, and focus on how government practices have changed as a result of the commitment’s implementation.
No IRM data
Pending IRM Review
Starred commitments in OGP are one of the ways the IRM designates promising reforms. The graph below shows where the major areas for improvement in action plan design and implementation should take place based on past action plans.
Stars (Global average 7%)
Focus on implementation
Focus on design
Pending IRM review
No IRM data
Focus on objectives and impact (ambition/potential impact)
Focus on relevance to open government
Focus on verifiability
This table shows: 1) the level of public influence during the development and implementation of OGP action plans, 2) whether consultations were open to any member of the public or only to those invited; and 3) whether a forum existed that met regularly.
Participation was closed
Participation was open to any interested party
No IRM data
Forum
Pending IRM review
Collaborate: Iterative dialogue and public helped set agenda
Involve: Government gave feedback on public inputs
Consult: Public gave input
Inform: Government provided public with information on plan
The data below is drawn from the 2019 OGP Global Report. You can view and learn more about the report here.
This section captures how each OGP member can play a leadership role, based on IRM-based findings and third-party scores. This list does not cover all of open government and OGP members are not required to take any action.
These are recommendations on the role that each OGP member might play in each policy area. The recommendations are derived from a combination of the IRM-based findings and third-party scores.
Reflect the performance of commitments in a particular policy area, as assessed by the IRM.
(NC) No Commitments
(CA) Commitment(s) in the policy area.
(IR) IRM-Reviewed: At least one IRM-assessed commitment.
(C) Was Complete: At least one commitment was substantially or fully completed.
(A) Was Ambitious: At least one commitment with moderate or transformative potential impact.
(ER) Showed Early Results: At least one commitment opened government in a “Major” or “Outstanding” way.
Reflect “real-world” performance, i.e., performance outside of the OGP framework. Scores are comprised of various indicators collected by respected organizations.
IRM-Based Findings
IRM-Based Findings
IRM-Based Findings
IRM-Based Findings
IRM-Based Findings
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